Ratti (unit)

Ratti (unit)
Gunja seeds (Abrus precatorius), used for measuring weights in India.
General information
Unit systemIndus Valley civilization, Mahajanapadas, Arthashastra, Mughal empire
Unit ofmass
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   SI units   0.11339 g

Ratti (Sanskrit: raktika) is a traditional Indian unit of measurement for mass. Based on the nominal weight of a Gunja seed (Abrus precatorius), it measured approximately 1.8 or 1.75 grains[1][2] or 0.1215 g as standardized weight.[3] It is still used by jewellers in the Indian Subcontinent.

  1. ^ Mukherjee, Money and Social Changes in India 2012, pp. 412–413.
  2. ^ Cunningham, Coins of Ancient India 1891, pp. 22–23.
  3. ^ Allchin, F. R. (1964). "An Inscribed Weight from Mathurā". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 7 (2): 201–205. doi:10.2307/3596241. ISSN 0022-4995. JSTOR 3596241.