Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.s14.4
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.s14.4
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c9.s14.4
In *avamāna* we have *hasta*, *daṇḍa*, *dhanuska*, *yuga*, *nālikā*, *akṣa*, and *musala*, which were used for measuring wells, brick house, wood, mat, cloth and moats, etc. In *gaṇima* or counting we have numbers from one to one crore. In *paḍimāna* there were *guñjā*, *kākaṇī*, *niṣpāva*, *karmamāṣaka*, *maṇḍalaka* and *suvarṇa*, which were used for weighing gold, silver, jewels, pearls, conch-shells and corals etc.¹²¹