☙
☙
pehtha or khwet (called viss by Europeans) |
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kyat (called tical by Europeans) |
100 |
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4 |
400 |
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| great moo |
2 |
8 |
800 |
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little moo |
* 1¹⁄₃ (1¼?) |
*2½ |
10 |
1000 |
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great pai |
1½ |
2 |
4 |
16 |
1600 |
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little pai |
1 1/3 |
2 |
2 2/3 |
*5 |
20 |
2000 |
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big ruay |
3 |
4 |
6 |
8 |
16 |
64 |
6400 |
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little ruay |
2 |
6 |
8 |
12 |
16 |
32 |
128 |
12,800 |
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| Nelkenbrecher and Ireland | 129 |
259 |
776 |
1.03 |
1.66 |
2.07 |
4.14 |
16.56 |
1655.6 |
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| Doursther | 118 |
236 |
708 |
0.94 |
1.51 |
1.89 |
3.78 |
15.12 |
1511.8 |
| United Nations | — |
255.1 |
— |
1.021 |
— |
2.04 |
4.08 |
16.33 |
1.633 |
The kandi = 150 pehthas, about 248.34 kg.
* The great moo/little moo ratio is a puzzle. As the moos are 2 of the respective pais, the ratio between them should be the same as the pais' ratio, which makes the great moo 1 1/3 little moo. But calculating from the documented numbers of kyats in a great moo and little moo makes the great moo 1¼ little moos. For some calculations we have used 1¼ little moo in a great moo, which is required to reach the documented 10 little moo to a kyat, and 5 little pai to a mat.
Doursther describes the moo as a unit for precious metals with 100 moos in a tical, and says that it is 0.15389 grams. Nelkenbrecher says Rangoon has no separate system of weights of precious metals.
Doursther, page 581.
Alleyne Ireland.
The Province of Burma. vol II.
Colonial Administration in the Far East.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1907.
Page 842.
Nelkenbrecher, page 724.
John Crawfurd.
On the Peoples and Cultures of the Kingdom of Burma.
SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, vol. 3, no. 2 (Autumn 2005).
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