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13–17. The nine kinds of (measure for the) hoods should be six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, and fourteen *aṅgulas* (in breadth): the width at the middle should be equal to that, the width at the top a little less, and at the bottom one-half of that; and the tip of the tail should be one *aṅgula*.