Volume 1
Materia Indica : or, some account of those articles which are employed by the Hindoos, and other Eastern nations, in their medicine, arts, and agriculture ... / by Whitelaw Ainslie.
- Date:
- 1826
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Materia Indica : or, some account of those articles which are employed by the Hindoos, and other Eastern nations, in their medicine, arts, and agriculture ... / by Whitelaw Ainslie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![1 Paddy seed (grain of rice in the husk) is 1 visum = i grain. 4 Visums are 1 gulivinda *, or 1 patika - 2 grains. 2 Gulivindas are 1 addaga = 4 grains. 2 Addagas are 1 chinum — 8 grains. c2\ Chinums are 1 tsavila = 20 grains. 2 Tsavilas are 1 dharanum — 40 grains. 2 Dharanums are 1 mada — 1 drachm 20 grains. 3 Madas are 1 tularn — 4 drachms. 0 Fulams are 1 pava siru — 3 ounces. 4 Pavas are 1 siru =12 ounces. 5 Sirs are 1 visa = 3lbs. 12 ounces. 2 Visas are 1 yettu — 7lbs. 8 ounces. 2 Yettus are 1 arda manugudu — l,5]bs. 2 Arda manugudus are 1 manugudu — SOlbs. 5 Manugudus are 1 yadum = 150lbs. 2 Yadums are 1 pandum = SOOlbs. 2 Pandums are 1 puladoo-candy = 600lbs. dry measure. 4 Dubs weight are 1 gidda — 2 ounces. 2 Giddas are 1 arasola — 4 ounces. 2 Arasolas are 1 sola — 8 ounces. * Di. Heyne calls this the seed of the abrus precatorius, but in what language I know not, as the common Sanscrit name is rac- lica, and the Hindoostanie retti; the Tamools term it coondoo- munny, the Tellingoos ghoorie ghinza, and the Malays telae. The appellation of the plant in Hindoostanie hguncha, in Sanscrit gunju ; the Mahometans of Lower India bestow on it the name of goomchie. Sir William Jones makes one of the seeds to weigh one grain and five-sixteenths ; and informs us, that the retti weight, used by jewellers, is equal to two grains three-sixteenths. bee Asiatic Researches, vol. ii. p. 154, and vol.v. p. 92.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21934046_0001_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
