Markandeyapurana 49.39

49.39

dve vitastī tathā hasto brāhmyatīrthādiveṣṭanaḥ /
caturhastaṃ dhanurdaṇḍo nāḍikāryugameva ca //

A minute atom, a para sūkṣma, the mote in a sunbeam,[7] the dust of the earth, and the point of a hair, and a young louse,[8] and a louse,[9] and the body of a barley-corn;[10] men say each of those things is eight times the size of the preceding thing.[11] Eight barley-corns equal an angola or finger-breadth;[12] six finger-breadths are a pada,[13] and twice that is known as a span;[14] and two spans make a cubit measured with the fingers closed in at the root of the thumb;[15] four cubits make a bow, a pole,[16] and equal two nāḍikās; two thousand bows make a gavyūti;[17] and four times that are declared by the wise to be a yojana;[18] this is the utmost measure for purposes of calculation.