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The face is taken as the standard of the *tāla* measurement, and is generally twelve *aṅgulas* or about nine inches in length. The face is stated to be of oval shape (*kukkuṭāṇḍa-samākāra*, lit., 'shaped like the egg of a hen'). The eye-brow is shaped like the bow (*chāpākāra*), the eyes like a fish (*matsyākāra*), the nose like the sesame flower (*tilapushpākṛiti*), and the nostrils (*puṭa*) like a bean (*nishpāva-bīja*).