In India, ? – 19ᵗʰ century, a unit of land area, = 1/20th of a biswa.
Biswánsa, or Bíswansí, H. ( , from Bisva, and S[anskrit]. अंशः anṣa, portion) The fraction of a Biṣwa, usually the twentieth.
H. H. Wilson, 1855, page 90.
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