Sunday Special--Kaudi/Cowrie
Kaudi ( Punjabi)Cowry or cowrie, plural cowries, is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. The word cowry is also often used to refer only to the shells of these snails, which overall are often shaped more or less like an egg, except that they are rather flat on the underside.
The word cowrie comes from Indian कौडि (kaudi), कवडी (kavadī)
or ಕವಡೆ (kavade) and ultimately from Sanskrit कपर्द (kaparda)
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The money cowrie snail is a great algae eater. This snail will eat all your unwanted algae from the glass and wall.
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This species is called "money cowry" because the shells were historically widely used in many Pacific and Indian Ocean countries as shell money before coinage was in common usage.
The term porcelain derives from the old Italian term for the cowrie shell (porcellana) due to their similar translucent appearance. Shells of certain species have historically been used as currency in several parts of the world,
The cowry was the shell most widely used worldwide as shell money. It is most abundant in the Indian Ocean, and was collected in the Maldive Islands, in Sri Lanka, along the Malabar coast, in Borneo and on other East Indian islands, and in various parts of the African coast from Ras Hafun to Mozambique. Cowry shell money was important in the trade networks of Africa, South Asia, and East Asia
- A print from 1845 shows cowry shells being used as money by an Arab trader.
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Literally means broken coin
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.(नगण्य या नाम मात्र का धन)Widely used dialogue in Hindi cinema:
Widely used term in Bollywood and North India to indicate a state of extreme penury /Nothingness/ worthlessness.
Rich dad : Aaj se tumhe Ek phooti kaudi nahin dunga. (Hence forth,you get nada from me)
कानी कौड़ी मतलब
(ऐसी कौड़ी जिसके बीच में माला पिरोने के लिए छेद किया गया हो) It's Value is Less than a Kaudi
Teri 2 kaudi di Naukri (ऐसी कौड़ी जिसके बीच में माला पिरोने के लिए छेद किया गया हो) It's Value is Less than a Kaudi
Kaudi mull ni reha sohne Punjab da
1 Cowrie Kaudi
Features
Country | India (ancient) |
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Type | Common coin |
Years | 1000-1825 |
Value | 1 Cowrie (1/2560) |
Metal | Sea Shell |
Weight | 2 g |
Diameter | 20 mm |
Shape | Shell |
Demonetized | yes |
Cowry shells are sometimes used in a way similar to
dice, e.g., in
board games like
Pachisi,
Ashta Chamma or in
divination (cf.
Ifá and the
annual customs of
Dahomey of
Benin). A number of shells (6 or 7 in Pachisi) are thrown, with those landing aperture
upwards indicating the actual number rolled
Siddhi over any kind of Kamakhya mantra. Kauri is used as one of the tantric product, as
kauri is used by Kamakhya Devi to wear it as jewellery and nowadays use by all tantric babas to wear it around their neck, waist and both hands.
Some species have historically been used as
currency in several parts of the world,
as well as being used, in the past and present, very extensively in jewelry, and for other decorative
and ceremonial purposes.
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