In India, 17ᵗʰ century, a unit of mass = 12 maunds, found in records of English traders.
William Foster.
The English Factories in India, 1661 — 64.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923.
Page 240, in a quotation from a letter from the factors in Karwar. See footnote 1, same page. Also in the 1655-60 volume, also page 240.
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