In western India, ? – 19ᵗʰ century, a unit of land area = 80 or 120 bighas.
Ḍor, also Ḍora and Ḍorí, H. &c. (, , ) A string, a rope ; also thread. Ḍorí is also applied to the chain or line used in land measurement ; and, among the Marathas, to a land measure : a Ḍorí is equal to 80, or sometimes 120, bíghás.
H. H. Wilson, 1855, page 147-148.
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