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¹ *Tāla* ordinarily means a span, but in sculptural measure it is taken to imply the length of the face up to the crown of the head. The number of the *tāla* indicates the number of parts into which the total height of the image is divided, e.g., in ten *tāla* if the measure of the face be twelve parts the total height should be divided into 10 × 12 or 120 parts: each of these is stated here to be a *Bera* (idol) *aṅgula*.