Note 51 — The Fourteenth New Year’s Feast from the Auspicious Accession
Alexander Rogers translation
In my father’s reign (the light of God be his testimony!) the weight of the seer was 30 dams.51 About this time it came into my mind: “Why should I act contrary to his rules?” It would be better to have it still of 30 dams. One day Gosāʾīn Jadrūp said that in the book of the Vedas, which the lords of his faith had written, the weight of the sīr was 36 dams. “As from the coincidences of the hidden world your order has fallen in with what is laid down in our book, if it be fixed at 36 dams, it will be well.” It was ordered that hereafter throughout the whole territory it should be 36 dams.