{"book":"adl0957","page":340,"text":"277\n\nAPPENDIX II\n\nWeights & Measures\n\nWeights and measures are not uniform throughout the country. The Government is, therefore, trying to introduce the metric system\nMeasures of length :\n1. Gaz-i-Shah (Kabul yard)..........1.065 meters\n2. Girah-i-Gaz-i-Shah ... .066 ,,\n3. Gaz-i-Memar (Mason's yard) ... .838 ,,\n4. Gaz-i-Jareeb (this is mostly used for measuring land) ... .736 ,,\n5. Side of a Jareeb ...44.183 ,,\n6. Side of a Biswah ... 9.879 ,,\n7. Side of a Biswasah ... 2.209 ,,\n8. 1 Koroh (used for distances of roads)\n4,000 Jareeb yds.\n\nWeight Measures :\n1. One Makhud ... .19 grams\nOne Misqal ... 4.4 ,,\nOne Khurd ... 110.4 ,,\nOne Pao ... 441.6 ,,\n(approximately an English pound)\nOne Charak ... 1766.4 grams\nOne Seer ... 7066.0 ,,\nOne Kharwar 565280.0 ,,","chars":762,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00340.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/340","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/340","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0957/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0957_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}