[Weights.]
3. A gunja[1] (or seed of Abrus) is reckoned ccjual to two barley-corns ; a valla, to two gunjas; and eight of those are d'harania ; two of which make a gadyáńaca. In like manner one d'hátaca is composed of fourteen vallas.
4. Half ten gunjas are called a másha,[2] by such as are conversant with the use of the balance : a carsha contains sixteen of what are termed máshas; a pala, four carshas. A carsha of gold is named suverńa.
[Measures.]
5—6. Eight breadths of a barley-corn[3] are here a finger ; four times six fingers, a cubit;[4] four cubits, a staff;[5] and a cross contains two thousand of these ; and a yójana, four crósas.
So a bambu pole consists of ten cubits ; and a field (or plane figure) bounded by four sides, measuring twenty bambu poles, is a nivartana.[6]
7, A cube,[7] which in length, breadth and thickness measures a cubit, is termed a solid cubit : and, in the meting of com and the like, a measure.
- ↑ A seed of Abrus precatorius : black or red ; the one called críshnala; the other racti, recticá or ratticá; whence Hind. ratti.
- ↑ Physicians reckon seven gunjas to the másha; lawyers, seven and a half. The same weight is intended ; and the difference of description arises only from counting by heavier or lighter seeds of Abrus : in like manner as the earth is the same, whether rated at 3300 yójanas; or, with the Śirómani, 4967 ; or, according to others, 6522. Gań.
- ↑ Eight barley-corns (yava) by breadth, or three grains of rice by length, a,K equal to one finger (angula). Gań.
- ↑ Hasta, cara and synonyma of hand or fore arm. According to the commentator Gan'e's'a, this intends the practical cubit as received by artisans, and vulgarly called gaj [or gaz]. It is nearer to the yard than to the true cubit : but the commentator seems to have no sufficient ground for so enlarging the cubit.
- ↑ Dan'da, a staff: directed to be cut nearly of man's height. Menu, 2. 46,
- ↑ A superficial measure or area containing 400 square poles. Sur.
- ↑ Dwádaśári, lit. dodecagon, but meaning a parallelopipedon ; the term asra, corner or angle, being here applied to the edge or line of incidence of two planes. See Chaturvéda on Brahmeoupta, §6.
