{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe07/sbe07006.htm","path":"hin/sbe07/sbe07006.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe07/sbe07006.htm","text":"1. The (very small mote of) dust which may be discerned in a sun-beam passing through a lattice is called trasarenu (trembling dust).\n2. Eight of these (trasarenus) are equal to a nit.\n3. Three of the latter are equal to a black mustard-seed.\n4. Three of these last are equal to a white mustard-seed.\n5. Six of these are equal to a barley-corn.\n6. Three of these equal a Krishnala.\n[6. Krishnala (literally, 'seed, of the Gu\u00f1g\u00e2 creeper') is another {footnote p. 24} name for Raktik\u00e2 or Rat\u00ee, the lowest denomination in general use. According to Prinsep (Useful Tables, p. 97) it equals 1.875 grains = 0.122 grammes of the metrical system. According to Thomas (see Colebrooke's Essays, ed. by Cowell, I, p. 529, note) it equals 1.75 grains.]\n7. Five of these equal a M\u00e2sha.\n8. Twelve of these are equal to half an Aksha.\n9. The weight of half an Aksha, with four M\u00e2shas added to it, is called a Suvarna.\n10. Four Suvarnas make a Nishka.\n11. Two Krishnalas of equal weight are equal to one M\u00e2shaka of silver.\n12. Sixteen of these are equal to a Dharana (of silver).\n13. A Karsha (or eighty Raktik\u00e2s) of copper is called K\u00e2rsh\u00e2pana.\n14. Two hundred and fifty (copper) Panas are declared to be the first (or lowest) amercement, five hundred are considered as the middlemost, and a thousand as the highest.","title":"IV.","type":"page"}