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‘Now the aṅgula or finger-breadth may be the theoretical unit it may well have been originally the actual unit and the source of the other measures. But we can hardly doubt that the hasta or cubit eventually took its place as the practical unit; and that a correct scale was maintained by keeping in public offices a standard hasta marked off into 2 vitasti and 24 aṅgulas. At any rate, the hasta is the practical measures to which we must attend in estimating all the others.’