☙

partan [Marathi]

In India, ? – 19ᵗʰ century, a unit of land area,

Paratana, vulgarly, Partan, Mar. ( , from , to return) The extent of land that may be annually ploughed by the single going and returning of a plough, hence implying a small field or strip of land, usually about four or five bíghás.

H. H. Wilson, 1855, page 401.