THULABHARAM 2
Dearfriends, Letme continue with the monkey story first in this posting. Sincerely, GopalaKrishnan 04-06- 2012 Re- posted after editing and updating information. Gopalakrishnan dated 6-10-21 5. Monkey story of weighing Anincident happened years ago. One day in a home big appam (mould sweet) was preparingfor a festive occasion. Two crows reached the home yard smelling appam. Thecook felt to give one big appam to crows and thrown one just outside. The twocrows dragged it more and desired to divide equally and eat leisurely. Either crow could not take the full appam inits beak due to its size and weight. Thecrows saw one Monkey a little away. They requested the monkey to help in equallydividing the appam in to two. Themonkey came consenting to divide the appam. It felt the smell of appam andconcluded that it would be tasty and desired a share while weighing and equallydividing. Themonkey tore the appam in to two and put in each hand and weighed with mind. Onepart in right hand was slightly weighing more and it ate its side and placed inarm. Now the part in left hand felt weighing more. It ate its side also. Theprocess repeated a 2nd time. The crows noted the monkey was eatingthe appam and they were losing that much appam. The crows were also veryintelligent. Theelder crow told younger- See, even before our tasting monkey is eating andquantity is getting reduced. The younger nodded. They told the monkey- Equally weighingis not a problem between us. We are brothers. They snatched the bits from themonkey’s hands and flew away. Nowadayscrows are more interested in salty things. The above monkey story I read inPanchathanthra kathakal. Moral(Guna patam)- Unity is strength. If there is a difference betweentwo men and a third man is approached he would make use of the situation to hisbenefit, making loose both. 6. Story of king Sibi. Inan afternoon king Sibi was relaxing after meals near an open window for breeze.Suddenly a parrot with wounds flew and fell on the lap of king Sibi. He tookit, cleaned the bleeding wound and applied medicines. On getting conscious theparrot requested the king to save him. It was shot by a hunter with his arrowand with pain it flew and fell on the lap of the king. Withinminutes, the hunter reached the king and said he was hungry and he shot theparrot for his food on the day and it was his right to have it. Theking said it was his duty as king to save the parrot came to him with wounds.He could not give the parrot. But the king said if he wanted meat being hungry,he can get that much meat from his thigh by weight equal to parrot. Theincident was actually a test by God to check the magnanimity of the king Sibi. KingSibi story I studied in primary class. 7. Equal weight cannot agree between allcommodities Inthe beginning commodities wereexchanged between people, one for the other as REQUIRED. There were nobargains. Each got what they required. But this method called Panda mattam couldnot be continued much. Threepersons having three different things, But their requirement was different fromwhat they all had. So a tender systemgot established. The tender was some authority. Different people gave to some authority which collected things andissued tender. Using the tender he couldget what he required from the others. This was also as REQUIRED. No measure byweight or volume. Onthose days no body felt the necessity of STORING FOR FUTURE. If something was available,available to everybody who desired it, if not available, not available toall. What an excellent atmosphere ofliving. Timepassed by hundreds of years. Population increased. When scarcity came for acommodity the quantity for a tender had to be limited. For a tender it wasweighed and given. The initial weighing might be using hands taking things inhands with mental weighing. Jackfruit (Chakka) could be weighed with mango. Rice could be weighed withwheat. Pepper (Kurumulagu) and Crdamom (elakka)could be weighed for equal weight. But can we weigh equally between cardamomand mango? Theeffort for producing of ealakka is much more comparing to plucking and bringinga few mangoes. So the importance of tender system. 8. Harappan mohenjedaro Indus Valleyperiod. Ihave read from Wikipedia polished stones of same size but different weight werefound on excavation. The weight of marble stones was lesser than granite and likethat.. This would have been used for earlier weighing before using metallicweights. I recollectin my boyhood days small granite weights were used instead ofmetallic weights in many shops . 9. Weighing measuring and counting Theseare all different methods of accounting. Coconuts are counted. Betel nuts areweighed or counted. Rice is either measured or weighed. Plantainsare counted by number or weighed now- adays. In my boyhood days liquid itemswere measured. Now many are weighed like edible oils. Ihave not seen milk weighed. It is told in measure. Similarly petroleum itemslike petrol or diesel or oils. ButCOOKING GAS IS WEIGHED. Manyitems earlier measured are now weighed. Examples are rice, pulses, commoditiesetc. 10. Difference between volume and weight. Onelitre of water weighs one kg. But one litre of oil weighs only 850-900 gramsand not one kg, since they are lesser than water in weight. Lesser density- Binding is lesser between molecules. Onelitre of kerosene weighs only about 750 or 800 grams, still lesser weight thanedible oils. This is the reason why same volume of silver and gold weigh verymuch difference. Silver has lesser density, Binding is lesser between molecules. 11. Spring balance and arm balance Thespring balance is handy. Here a needle attached to a spring move over a premarked scale. When spring is more tensioned or pulled by weight, the needlemoves down. Ihave read from Wikipedia post offices were using this spring balance since easyfor weighing. But in India I had seen only balance with arms earlier. Recentpast electronic machines are installed to weigh postal articles for chargingdepend on weight alone within India , and distance also outside India. 12. Weighing in reserve bank Whilereserve bank issue coins, I am told, they are not COUNTED but weighed. Certainweight and type of coins make certain value. They have a ready chart, for theweight of coins and its value. I will continue in next posting. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/136363547.1817709.1633480715389%40mail.yahoo.com.
