In Burma, before 19ᵗʰ – 20ᵗʰ
century ¹, a unit of length, approximately 3.912 meters (approximately 154 inches).
Also known as dha or ta². One bamboo = 1/1000 dain = 7 saundaungs.3
1. United Nations, 1966.
2. Simmonds, 1892, page 369. Simmonds states “20 tas make one okthaba of 70 feet,” but 70 yards is intended. Simmonds takes the ta at 3½ yards; Nelkenbrecher (1890, page 723) at 3.3959 meters.
3. Doursther, page 45.
1
a ta, a measure of length equal to 7 cubits (), the short ta measuring 4 cubits and the long ta 12 cubits;
Robert C. Stevenson.
Judson's Burmese-English Dictionary. Revised and Enlarged.
Rangoon: Printed by the Superintendent, Government Printing, 1893.
Page 49.
2
To measure with a ta, a measure of length equal to 7 cubits (some tas are 8 cubits). In measuring distances along a road or highway, the seven cubit ta was the standard; in measuring ditches or drains, the eight cubit ta.
Robert C. Stevenson.
Judson's Burmese-English Dictionary. Revised and Enlarged.
Rangoon: Printed by the Superintendent, Government
Printing, 1893.
Page 513.
In India, a unit of length, in the reforms of Akbar the Great (ruled
1556 – 1605) about 12.8 meters.
Doursther, page 45.
A unit of mass and capacity in many areas around the Indian Ocean. Doursther attempted to convert from mass to capacity at a rate of 75 kg per 100 liters:
In Sumatra, “bamboo” was another name for the koolah or culah.
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