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Chingleput, India
19ᵗʰ century units of mass

Chingleput was the name of a district and of a city, the modern Chengalpattu, about 60 km from Chennai (the former Madras).

					candy
				maund	20
			viss	8	160
		pollam	40	320	6400
	tola	3 1/3	133 1/3	1066 2/3	21,333 1/3
gold star pagoda	3	10	400	3200	64,000
2 dr. 0.0075 gr	6 dr 0.02 gr	1¼ oz	3 lb 2 oz	24 lb.	500 lb.
3.544 g	10.63 g	35.44 g	1.417 kg	10.886 kg	226.832 kg

By the government reforms of 1846
				maund
			viss	8
		pollam	40	320
	tola	3	120	960
grain	180	540	21,600	172,800
	6.58 drams	1 oz 3.75 drams	3 lb 1 oz 5.94 drams	24 lb. 10 oz. 15.51 drams
	11.66 g	34.99 g	1.400 kg	11.197 kg

Charles Stewart Crole.
The Chingleput, Late Madras, District. A Manual compiled under the orders of the Madras Government.
Madras: Printed at the Lawrence Asylum Press, Mount Road, by W. H. Moore, 1879.

Page 58. The column heading “grs.” in the source's second table is a printer's error; it should read “drs”.

Chingleput, India 19ᵗʰ century units of mass

Chingleput, India
19ᵗʰ century units of mass