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   Weight Standards and Standardization
   The successful scaling of overland and maritime exchange required precise, universally accepted units of measurement. In the Mature Harappan Period, weights were standardized to cubical chert stones adhering strictly to binary multiples of the harappa-mass ($\approx 13.64$ grams) [4].
   A significant deviation from this ancient rigor occurred following the formation of the Committee for Sub-Chromatic Standardization (CSCS) in 195…