The Ancient Geography of India. I. The Buddhist Period, including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-Thsang c11.19
The Ancient Geography of India. I. The Buddhist Period, including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-Thsang c11.19
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c11.19
The variations in the length of the Indian *kos* must have puzzled the Chinese pilgrims. It is on this account perhaps that Fa-Hian uses the greater measure of the *yojana*, while Hwen Thsang records all distances in his native *li*. At the present day the length of the *kos* varies in almost every district; but practically there are only three absolutely distinct values of the *kos* now in use in Northern India.