102 ON INDIAN WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 



" The c'harica of Utcala is in general ufe on the 

 cc fouth of the river Gbddveri : there the drbna is the 

 €€ fixteenth part of a chari\ (as in the Second Table;) 

 u the acTbaca the fourth of a drbna ; the praft'ba, the 

 " fourth of an ad'baca; and the cudava, a quarter of 

 cc 'dprqft'ba. But the cudava, formed like a ghanabafta> 

 " mould be meafured by three fingers and a half 

 fC in every dimenfion. This vellel mult be made of 

 <« earth, or fimilar materials; for fuch alone is a cu- 

 " dava." 



Both by this Haternent, and by the Second Table, a 

 fbafi confifTs of 1026 cudavas ; and fince the cubit 

 muft be taken at twenty- four fingers, or angulas, a fo- 

 lid cubit will contain 13,824 cubickangulas or fingers; 

 and one cudava thirteen and a half cubick angulas. Its 

 folid contents, therefore, are the half of a cube whofe 

 fide is three fingers. A flight change in the reading 

 would make the defcription quoted from the Ltlavafi 

 coincide with this computation; and the c'barica of 

 Utcala and Magad'ha would be the fame. 



However, Lacshmi'dhera has defcribed the cudava 

 as a vellel four fingers wide, and as many deep, which 

 makes a cudava offixty-four cubick angulas, or twenty - 

 feven cubick inches. This will exhibit an ad'baca of 432 

 inches, fimilar to a dry meafure ufed at Madras, which 

 is faid to contain 423 cubick inches, and is the eighth 

 part of a marcal of 33 84 cubick inches, or nearly double 

 the drbna of 1728 cubick inches. If the cudava of Ut- 

 cala be a cube whofe fide is three and a half fingers, 

 containing forty-three cubick angulas nearly, or eigh- 

 teen cubick inches and a fraction, the c'barica of Ut- 

 cala contains 44,118 cubick angulas * or 18,612 cu- 

 bick inches, taking the cubit at eighteen inches. 



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