In India, ? – 19ᵗʰ century, a unit of land area.
Purá (?) H[indi]. A local term for a measure of land, apparently the same as a bíghá.—Maimansinh. It is also used in Asam, where it is about 1¾ statute acre.
H. H. Wilson, 1855, pages 428 and 592.
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