In India, ? – 19ᵗʰ century, a unit of dry capacity
Prastha, S[anscrit]. &c. ( ) A measure of capacity for grain, equal to 4 kuḍavas or 48 handfuls; considered by Capt. Jervis the same as the sèr.
H. H. Wilson, 1855, page 424.
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