The buri leaflets are then placed in a vessel containing two gantas of sappan wood (see dyes), one-half liter of lime water, and one chupa of tobacco leaves.
They are then placed in a fluid made by boiling two gantas of kolis leaves (see mordants) in plain water for one hour.
In a pot capable of holding 25 fist bundles of sabutan, four gantas [15] of finely chopped sappan are placed.
Now the boss receives one hundred pesos, and the others the same pay as before, but the ration that is given them must be on the account of their pay, and is fifteen gantas to each one--boss and all.
Twenty pesos are saved on the boss, besides seven hundred and thirty gantas of rice, and thirty-six thousand five hundred gantas from the one hundred Indians.
The Sangley calkers who ordinarily work at the royal works in Cabite and other places shall receive five pesos per month, and, in addition, fifteen gantas of cleaned rice.
Now they receive the same money, and fifteen gantasof cleaned rice apiece, or for all twenty, three thousand six hundred gantas per year.
The rest received various sums, and thirty gantasof rice per month.
The Spanish boss of the rope-factory at the port of Cabite shall receive an annual pay of one hundred and fifty pesos, and thirty gantas of cleaned rice per month, which shall be paid on the account of his wages.
One hundred and eighty pesos and three hundred and sixty-five gantas of cleaned rice are saved on the two bosses 180 p.
Each one has been deprived of five gantas per month, or sixty gantas per year.
It is called the Pagdatto, and consists of a piece of cloth called a Jabol, a bolo, and twenty gantas of paddy (equal to 10 gantas of rice) from each married couple.
From eighteen to fifteen gantas may be had for half a real.
The balao is sold in Albay at four reals for the tinaja of ten gantas (the liter at eight pence).
This supposition is borne out by a later passage where Salazar states that in former times four hundred gantas of rice cost one tostón.
Formerly, when rice was plentiful, four hundred gantas were worth one tostón; your Majesty's officials of La Pampanga furnished me with the price which it was worth.
The three hundred gantas which they took from them for one tostón were worth about six tostóns, and a person who wished to buy it could not find it.
Last year the governor ordered that twelve thousand fanégas of rice be taken from La Pampanga for your Majesty, and that the Indians should give three hundred gantas for one tostón.
And while the price among the Indians is fifty gantas for one tostón, they require them to give for your Majesty at the rate of two hundred and fifty gantas.
Mubatu kug duha ka gantang bugas, I’ll buy two gantas of rice on credit.
Ulían ta ka ug dubli sa tingsanggì, I will borrow eight gantas of corn, and I will pay you back double during harvest time.
Pugas ug tulu ka gantang ang ákung baul, I can plant three gantas of grain in my field.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gantas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
