South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources c8.21

c8.21

The *tāla*, the measure of the face, is sub-divided into *tāla*. 12 parts each represented by one *angula*. The lowest unit being *anus* or the atoms which are seen in a ray of sunlight streaming through a crevice. The units of measurements which appear to be the same in all the South Indian texts may be thus tabulated :—