the lunar arrangement, and follow the same order, that obtains in all other parts of the world, viz.
| တနင်္ဂနွေ, Sunday, | ကြာသပတေး, Thursday, |
| တနင်္လာ, Monday, | သောက်ကြာ, Friday, |
| အင်္ဂါ, Tuesday, | စနေ, Saturday, |
| ဗုဒ္ဓဟူး, Wednesday. |
The day and the night are each divided into four periods, which as they terminate, are designated by their appropriate beat of drum. The single beat, တချက်တီး, accords with 9 o’clock, morning or evening; the double beat, နှစ်ချက်တီး, accords with 12 o’clock; the triple beat, သုံးချက်တီး, with 3 o’clock; and the quadruple beat, လေးချက်တီး, with 6 o’clock.
A natural day is also divided into sixty equal parts, called နာရီ, which are again subject to various subdivisions, seldom used but in astrological works.
weights.
ချင်ရွေး, the seed of the abrus precatorius, marked ( ွေ), as ၁ွေ, တရွေး.
ရွေးကြီး, the seed of the adenanthera pavonina, double the weight of the above, marked the same.
