In India, ? – 19ᵗʰ century,
Bíswak, Mar. (, from S[anskrit]. , twenty) The twentieth part of a Pád, which is the twentieth of a Bighá. The Biswak is one square Kátí, or rod, which, however, varies in length.
H. H. Wilson, 1855, page 90.
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