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The parva aṅg unit is possibly used from Vedic period onwards. More work will be of interest to know whether the parva aṅg and muṣṭi aṅg units are responsibile for two values of yojana or krośa in later period. However, parva aṅg is possibly followed more or less uniformly in linear measure as follows:-