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of the common (ize. Twelve fitch handfuls fill a cu- 

 dava, defcribed as a veffel four fingers wide, and as 

 many deep, which is ufed in meafuring Jmall wood, 

 canes, iron, and other things. But Va'chespatimisra 

 adopts this cudava of twelve prajritis, whence we 

 have a third Table of legal Meafures in general ufe. 



Table III. 



12 double handfuls = i cudava. 



4 cudavas = i praft'ha. 



4 praft'has = I ad'haca. 



4 adhacas = i dr'ona. 



20 drbnas sss l cumb'ha. 



Befides the difference already noticed on the fubjedt 

 of the cumb'ha, commentators have fuggefled wider 

 differences. According to Cullu'ca Bhatta', it con- 

 tains twenty drbnas ; but this drbna contains two 

 hundred palas. 



In the Dana viveca the cumb'ha is dated at one thou- 

 fand palas ; in the R etna car a, at twenty pr aft' has. 

 But, according to Ja'tu'c arna, five hundred and twelve 

 palas only conftitute a cumb'ha. This may be the 

 fame quantity with the drbna, as a meafure or weight 

 eftimated by the hand. It mould confift of four 

 ad'hacas, each equal to four pr aft' has ; and each of 

 thefe weighing, according to the Atharva veda, thirty- 

 two palas of gold. This again feems to be the praft ha 

 of Magad'ha, defcribed by Go'patha Bra'hmana. 



4 crijhnalas = i mdjha. 

 64 mdjhas = I pala. 

 32 palas = 1 praft' ha, as ufed in Magad'ha, 



G 2 Since 



