The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c9.132

v1.c9.132

⁵⁴ The tern used is *tāra* or *tāla*, i.e. an instant, it being borrowed from the measure of time in music, very much in the same way in which European artists use the word *minute* for a similar purpose, and reckon the size of particular members of the body by so many heads, parts, and minutes. The word *aṅgula*, or the breadth of the thumb, is apparently employed as an equivalent of *tāla*, but to prevent misapprehension I have, in the paraphrase given above, used the word 'finger'; a literal translation is scarcely needed.