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3. A gunja (or seed of Abrus) is reckoned ccjual to two barley-corns ; a valla, to two gunjas; and eight of those are d'harania ; two of which make a gadyáńaca. In like manner one d'hátaca is composed of fourteen vallas.

4. Half ten gunjas are called a másha, by such as are conversant with the use of the balance : a carsha contains sixteen of what are termed máshas; a pala, four carshas. A carsha of gold is named suverńa.

5—6. Eight breadths of a barley-corn are here a finger ; four times six fingers, a cubit; four cubits, a staff; and a cross contains two thousand of these ; and a yójana, four crósas.

So a bambu pole consists of ten cubits ; and a field (or plane figure) bounded by four sides, measuring twenty bambu poles, is a nivartana.

7, A cube, which in length, breadth and thickness measures a cubit, is termed a solid cubit : and, in the meting of com and the like, a measure.