Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 7, 2025
The threshing-floor, and seed-cleaning ground presents a busy sight when several thousand maunds of seed are being got ready for despatch by boats. The dirty seed, full of dust and other impurities, is heaped up in one corner. The floor is in the shape of a large square, nicely paved with cement, as hard and clean as marble.
A maund is approximately equal to 8 lbs., and this quantity forms a comparatively small bundle. In other cases, the fibre is made up into what is known as a "drum"; this is a hand-packed bale of from 1 1/2 to 3 or 3 1/2 maunds; it is a very convenient size for transit in India.
In the morning the Gosain told the Raja's son to go to a blacksmith and have a shield made of twelve maunds of iron and with its edge so sharp that a leaf falling on it would be cut in two. So he went to the blacksmith and had a shield made, and took it to the Gosain.
The above estimate of the Agricultural Department rests chiefly on the statements of the cultivators, and has not been adequately tested by experiment. Since the appearance of the potato disease in 1885-86 there has been a great decrease in the area under potato cultivation. In 1881-82 the exports of potatoes from the district were as high as 126,981 maunds.
Heads, bodies, legs, arms, hands, spears, guns, muskets, planks, and colours, lay indiscriminately among the pile of ruin. Four thousand maunds, or three hundred and twenty thousand pounds of gunpowder, an accumulation of years, were contained in this magazine.
The Arab depot now came into play to satisfy this sudden and unexpected call upon our store of cloths. There were ten Beluches fit for service, and for each of them a gora was bought at the depot, at a valuation of ten dollars each, or a hundred the lot. In addition to this they received an advance of fifteen maunds of white beads in lieu of rations a rate of 1 lb. per man per day for six weeks.
It will be seen that in the three years following the earthquake of 1897 the exports fell very low indeed. Since 1901 the trade has been steadily recovering, and the exports of 1904 reached half a lakh of maunds. It will be observed that there has been some improvement, but the exports are still not half what they were in 1881-82.
The usual quantity of seed used to the acre at each sowing is about 9 maunds, so that the gross out-turn of an acre of land cultivated with potatoes during the year may be taken at 63 maunds, and the net out-turn, after deducting the quantity of seed used, at 45 maunds.
20 Maunds white beads = 70 lb. 3 loads of rice grown at Unyanyembe by the Arabs. Expenditure for the Journey from 9th July to 25th August 1858.
A curl of white smoke, a puff of flame, and the work of destruction was, to all appearance, completed. "'In view of your misfortune, my friend, I resumed, 'I bestow upon you in the name of my master ten maunds of dal, which will be sent to your home on the morrow. "The recipient of this unexpected bounty prostrated himself before me. "'O prince of justice, no longer do my wounds pain me.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking