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¹ The exact size of the nine *tāla* is not specified here, but in the largest type the whole height is divided into 112 parts (see the writer's *Dictionary*, pp. 225-226) and in the smallest size there should be 108 parts. Some unspecified limbs are also stated according to the ten *tāla* system see line 83). Again the whole figure being the composition of limbs of hybrid species of animals and birds, and the text being beyond improvement the measures given in the following lines are more or less confusing.