maundy

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The exports from Calcutta in 1841 were 11,000 Indian maunds, and 28,137 in 1842.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

Of this we used seventy maunds daily, and so had only a few days in reserve.

From To Lhassa at Last by Millington, Powell

So long as I possess two maunds of wine, Bread of the flower of wheat, and mutton chine, And you, O Tulip cheek, to share my hut, Not every Sultan's lot can vie with mine.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar

Oh! raja, I saw in Gumda’s house twelve maunds of cooked rice, and he threw a loaf of bread weighing eight maunds at me, which almost crushed me to death.

From Santal Folk Tales by Campbell, A.

I go to receive eight maunds of silver for her corpse.

From Santal Folk Tales by Campbell, A.