Sentence:  Now the rail has come, and the fire-carriage says "buz-buz-buz", and a hundred lakhs of <WSD>"maunds</WSD>" slide across that big bridge. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A unit of weight in southern and western Asia, whose value varied widely by location. Two maunds made one chest of opium in East India. One maund equalled 136 pounds of opium in Turkey.