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The face should be twelve aṅgulas broad and fourteen aṅgulas long : such a measure is known as Drāviḍa (i. e., this is the Draviḍa style of measurement).—(*Brihat-Saṁhitā*, lviii, 4, *J.R.A.S.*, N. S., Vol. vi, p. 323, note 3.)

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Bṛhatsaṃhitā — Varāhamihira, Sanskrit