The Development of Hindu Iconography c15.5

c15.5

³ W. W. Hyde, *op. cit.*, p. 68. I shall presently show that in ancient and mediæval India, the length of the face (from the chin to the beginning of the hair-line—*keśarekhā*) or the inside length of the outstretched palm was the bigger unit known as *tāla* in terms of which the whole height of the body was calculated.