Telugu Measures and Arithmetic Marks

This paper is a summary of the historical measurement system that was used by the Telugu people before it was replaced by the modern metric system. Measures of volume, weight and length along with the arithmetic notation used to write the measures are described here. Many of the words that represent a unit of a certain measurement are still used; most often their original meaning is lost. The sections on the historical measures have been compiled from [1], [2] and [3]. The final section describes the new characters and signs that need to be added to the Unicode Standard for accurate encoding and rendering of historical books and documents.