Elements of Hindu Iconography v3.c21.22

v3.c21.22

right angles to the plane, in which the māna and pramāṇa measures have been noted, are called unmāna, which obviously means the measure of thickness; parimāṇa is the name of the measurement of girths or of the periptery of images; upamāna refers to the measurements of inter-spaces, such, for instance, as that between the two feet of an image; and lastly lambamāna is the name given to measurements taken along plumb-lines. These six names of the requisite linear measurements have a number of synonyms which it is also very necessary to know for understanding aright the texts given in this Appendix. They are therefore given here below:—