Manasara Series (I. A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture; II. Indian Architecture according to Manasara-Shilpashastra; III. Manasara on Architecture and Sculpture: Sanskrit Text; IV. Architecture of Manasara: Translation; V. Architecture of Manasara: Illustrations; VI. Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad; VII. An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture) v1.c6.104
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(16) “Like some of the other Hindu tables, it “(Kauṭilīya-Arthaśāstra”) starts (p. 106, line 3) with the paramāṇu or ‘most minute atom.’ It takes its measures up to the aṅgula, through four intermediate grades, by “eights”: it defines the aṅgula (line 7) as being equal to 8 yava-madhya, or 8 barley-corns laid side by side: and it further defines it as the middle breadth of the middle finger of a middle-sized man. It tells us (line 11) that 12 *aṅgula* are 1 *vitasti* or “span and (line 13) that 2 *vitasti* are 1 *aratni*: here, by its aratni of 24 aṅgula it means the measure which in other tables is usually called hasta or kara, “the fore-arm, the cubit”; and, in fact, it adds *prājāpatya* hasta as another name of its *aratni*.”
Linked texts (5)
- Chāndogyopaniṣad — Sanskrit
- Aitareyabrāhmaṇa — Mahidāsa Aitareya, Sanskrit
- Śatapathabrāhmaṇa — Yājñavalkya & Śāṇḍilya (Vedic teacher), Sanskrit
- Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit
- Śulbasūtra