adhára

In India, a unit of mass = 1/10th of a bhára. If the adhára = hára = 200 palas, taking the pala as a gold weight of about 27.21 grams makes the adhára roughly 5.44 kilograms.

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200 palas, or nishkas, consititute one hára.

According to Dánayogíśwara, the tenth of a bhára is called adhára, which is consequently syonymous with hára as a term for a specific quantity of gold.

H. T. Colbrooke.
Miscellaneous Essays. Vol. 1.
London: Trübner, 1873.
Page 531.

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