nali [Hindi & others]

For the Tamil unit of capacity, see nali.

In Kumaon, India, ? – 19ᵗʰ century,

Nálí, H. &c. (S[anskrit]. ) … in Kamaon, a measure of space, half a bísi; also a measure of grain, twenty of which, of seed, are the contents of a sheep saddlebag, and should be sown in a bísi of land.

H. H. Wilson, 1855, page 365.

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