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(*d*) Another kind of *aṅgula* measurement is determined by dividing the whole length of the body of an image into a number of equal parts, each of which is called a *deha-labdhāṅgula* or simply *dehāṅgula*. In the last sense, *aṅgula* is used to mean simply a part. Thus both *aṅgula* and part (*aṁśa*, *mātrā*) are indiscriminately used throughout the work. If the length, etc., of a building or image is divided into a number of equal parts for some special purpose, each of them is called *aṅgula*, *aṁśa*, or *mātrā* indiscriminately. This lack of discrimination has been very confusing in many places, rendering it extremely hard to distinguish an absolute measurement from a comparative one.