ON INDIAN WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. IOI 



For meafures ufed in Mifhila, and fome other 

 countries, we have the authority of Chande'suara, 

 in the Bala bhufhana. They differ from the fecond 

 table, interpofing a mdnica equal to a fourth of a 

 c'bdri, and making the bdha equal to twenty c'haris. 



4 palas = I cudava. 



4 cudavas =z 1 prajl'ha. 



^praft'has = 1 ad'haca. 



4 ad'hacas = 1 drbna. 



4 dronas = 1 mdnica. 



4 mdnicas = I c'hdri. 



20 c'hdrts = 1 bdha. 



Gopa'la Bhatta' Hates another fet of meafures, 

 without furnifhing a comparifon to any determinate 

 'quantity otherwife known. 



4 dyus = 1 sdcfha. 



4 sdcfhas = 1 bilwa. 



4 bilwas = 1 cudava. 



4 cudavas = 1 praft'ha. 



^.prajl'has = 1 c'hdri. 



4 c'kdris = 1 g0#). 



4 g0/zb == 1 dr'onicd. 



I have already quoted a comparifon of the cudava to 

 a practical meafure of length ; and we learn from 

 the Ltldvaii, that thee 9 hart, or c'hanca, of Magad'ha, 

 fhould be a cube meafured by one cubit. " A vefiel 

 " meafured by a cubit, in every dimenfion, is a 

 " ghanahafta, which, in Magad'ha, is called c y harica: 

 " it fhould be made with twelve corners, or angles 

 " formed by fur faces ; (that is> it fiould be made in the 

 " form of a f olid, with fix faces,) 



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