The Colas c31.25

c31.25

The same diversity of usage marks the systems of land, liquid and grain measures adopted in different areas. The *nilam* or *vēli*, called *vāṭikā* in Sanskrit in the Anbil plates, was the unit measure of land.⁷⁰ It was divided into 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/20, 1/80, and 1/320, a secondary series (the first *kīḻ*) of 1/320 of this primary series, and a tertiary (1/320)² (the second *kīḻ*) of the same;⁷¹ even a third *kīḻ* series (1/320)³ seems to be occasionally employed.⁷²