Abstract
Weights and measures are considered as a basic requirement of everyday life, human industry, trade and commerce, tax collection, to measure labor of shepherds, farmers, artisan and measuring distances, areas, depth, volume and time. The early men needed an accurate and standard system of measurement to cope with these problems nature provided him some rough averages such as measuring length, man used his body parts as elementary methods, like thumb (Anghusht), Foot (pad), pace (gaam), fore arm or cubit (harish, hath) similarly for weighing nature intervened to help him, grains, date stones (gaddag), a pinch (chikk), a handful (lapp), a double handful (chank) were the different tools to estimate with. For everyday transactions goat skins, baskets, woolen sacks were used as volume measurements. For time measurement the movement and position of sun, moon, stars, different seasons, rainfall and winds helped him a simple estimate of time.
Mohammad Yousuf, Dr. Abdul Razzaq Sabir2. (2017) Knowledge of weights and measurements in ancient times: A Balochi and Brahui perspective, Balochistan Review, Volume 1, Issue 1.
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