vèli [Tamil]

In India, ? – 19ᵗʰ century, a unit of land area. In Karaikal about 6.61 acres (26,756.075 square meters): opens a new page containing a chart that shows relationships between this unit and other units in its system

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Vèli, corruptly Valee, Valie, Valy, Vaily, Weli, Tam. ( ) A measure of land containing five kánis or six acres and six-tenths : a field of that extent.

H. H. Wilson, 1855, page 545.

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Vèly...20 mas...266.10993 [ares]

Notices Statistiques sur les Colonies Francaises.
Troisieme Partie. ètablissements Français de L'Inde. — Sènègal et Dèpendances.
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1839.
Page 130.

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Le vély est l'unité de surface: il est égal à 288000 pi. q. angl. ou 253553,35 pi. q. franç.; il se divise en 20 mâs et le mà en 100 cougis.

The veli is the unit of area; it is equal to 288,000 square English feet, or 253,553.35 square French pied; it is divided into 20 mâs, and the ma into 100 cougis.

P. Perreaux.
Traité Élémentaire d'Arithmétique à l'Usage des Indiens.
Pondicherry: Imprimé par autorisation, a l'Imprimerie du Gouvernement, 1838.
Page 195.

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