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Of the division under (viii) the details of the height of an image as compared with the height of the worshipper are given here. The height of the image may be equal to the full height of the worshipper, may extend up to his hair-limit (on the forehead), or, as sometimes stated, to the eye-line, nose-tip, chin, arm-limit (to the shoulder), breast, heart, navel, and sex organ :