Katha (unit)

Cotta was an East Indian area measure and it was used to Calcutta in Bengal.

As cotta or Codda it was also a counting measure in the Maldives and located on various African coastal regions. It was used here as a substitute for money bill. A Cotta had 12,000 cowrie tiger or small snails ( Cypraea tigris ) as the amount of the exchange object. The kauri snail corresponded to retail the vagina and coin was worth about 14 pence.

The square measure had these values ​​: