Abstract
During the 1st millennium BC, states began to emerge in South-East Asia. But in the beginning, no uniform weight measures have been created there. Development of maritime trade with India in the first centuries of Common Era and the resulting cultural influence from India led to the advent of the Indian-type statehood there, which used Indian weight systems along with local measures. In the 15th – 16th centuries, this region was involved in Chinese maritime trade. As a result, the Chinese or the mixed Chinese-Malayan system of weight measures was used in trade. This work determines the mass of weight units used by civilizations in South-East Asia, recreates the structure of weight systems, and establishes their correlations and interrelations between various weight systems. The origins of certain weight units and the changes in the structure of weight systems and weight norms over a long period have been traced.
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