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(16) ‘Like some of the other Hindu tables, it (*Kauṭilīya-Arthaśāstra*) starts (p. 106, line 3) with the paramāṇu or ‘most minute atom.’ It takes its measures up to the aṅgula, through four intermediate grades, by eights; it defines the aṅgula (line 7) as being equal to 8 yava-madhya, or 8 barley-corns laid side by side; and it further defines it as the middle breadth of the middle finger of a middle-sized man. It tells us (line 11) that 12 aṅgulas are 1 vitasti or span, and (line 13) that 2 vitastis are 1 aratni; here, by its aratni of 24 aṅgulas it means the measure which in other tables is usually called hasta or kara, the forearm, the cubit; and, in fact, it adds prājāpatya hasta as another name of the its aratni.
Linked texts (8)
- Mānava Dharmaśāstra — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit
- Chāndogyopaniṣad — Sanskrit
- Aitareyabrāhmaṇa — Mahidāsa Aitareya, Sanskrit
- Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa — Vālmīki, Sanskrit
- Śatapathabrāhmaṇa — Yājñavalkya & Śāṇḍilya (Vedic teacher), Sanskrit
- Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit
- Bṛhatsaṃhitā — Varāhamihira, Sanskrit
- Śulbasūtra