Masha (unit)

British Indian
units of mass

Mughal Empire

| 1 maund | = | 40 seers

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1 seer | = | 30 dams
1 dam | = | 5 tanks
1 tank | = | 3 mashas
1 masha | = | 8 ruttees

Bengal Presidency

| 1 maund | = | 8 passerees

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1 passeree | = | 5 seers
1 seer | = | 16 chitaks
1 chitak | = | 5 tolas
1 tola | = | 12 mashas
1 masha | = | 8 rattis
1 ratti | = | 4 dhans
Regulation VII 1833 fixed the mass of one tola as 180 troy grains
(11.663 8038 grams)

Bombay Presidency

| 1 candy | = | 20 maunds

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1 maund | = | 40 seers
1 seer | = | 72 tanks
The maund was fixed at 28 pounds avoirdupois (¼ hundredweight)
(12.700 586 36 kilograms)

Madras Presidency

| 1 candy | = | 20 maunds

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1 maund | = | 8 vis
1 vis | = | 5 seers
1 seer | = | 8 pollums
1 pollum | = | 10 pagodas
The maund was fixed at 25 pounds avoirdupois
(11.339 809 25 kilograms)

A masha is a traditional India n unit of mass, now standardized as 0.972 grams (0.0343 oz).

Grain is usually taken is rice
8 grains of rice = 1 Ratti
8 Ratti = 1 Masha
12 Masha = 1 Tola
5 Tola = 1 chattank
16 chittank = 1 sair (kg)
1 sair =1000 gram and 40 sair = 1 mann (now a day says 40 kg= 1mann)
25 Mann = 1 Ton (1000 KG)

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