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The measurement from the foot to the top of the head is called *māna*, which is in fact nothing but height. *Pramāṇa* is the measurement of breadth (*vistāra*); *parimāṇa* is the measurement of girth or circumference (*paritaḥ*); *lamba-māna* is the measurement along the plumb-line or the line drawn perpendicularly through the different parts of the body, the *māna* or the measurement of the height being determined by the surface of the body; *unmāna* is the measurement of thickness (*nimna*) or diameter; and *upamāna* is the measurement of interspace (*antara*), such as that between the two feet of an image; this measurement is evidently taken from one plumb-line to another.