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Rh One half is expressed by တဝက်, placed after the noun of dimension or quantity, as ယူ&#8203;ဇ&#8203;နာ&#8203;တ&#8203;ဝက်, half a yoozana; one and a half, two and a half, &c. by တ, နှစ်, &c. placed before, and ခွဲ after, as တ&#8203;ယူ&#8203;ဇ&#8203;နာ&#8203;ခွဲ, one yoozana and a half, နှစ်&#8203;ယူ&#8203;ဇ&#8203;နာ&#8203;ခ, two yoozanas and a half, &c. One and a quarter, &c. is expressed by prefixing တ, &c. and affixing တ&#8203;စိတ်, connected to the noun, by နှင့်, as တ&#8203;ယူ&#8203;ဇ&#8203;နာ&#8203;နှင့်&#8203;တ&#8203;စိတ်, one yoozana and a quarter, &c. All fractions, except one half, are commonly expressed by the help of အစု, a collection; thus သုံး&#8203;စု&#8203;တွင်&#8203;တ&#8203;စု, one third, လေး&#8203;စု&#8203;တွင်&#8203;တ&#8203;စု, one quarter, ငါး&#8203;စု&#8203;တွင်&#8203;သုံး&#8203;စု, three fifths.

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The true epoch of Burman time is the annihilation of Gaudama, the last Boodh or deity, which is placed five hundred and forty-four years before Christ; but the vulgar epoch is placed eleven hundred and eighty-two years later, or six hundred and thirty-eight years after Christ.

Time is measured by lunar months, consisting of twenty-nine and thirty days alternately. Twelve lunar months make a common year, and every