ON INDIAN WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. IO5 



8 barley-corns = i finger's breadth. 



24 fingers = I be/la, or cubit. 



4 cubits — 1 denda (=: i dhanufh.) 



1 000 den das = I crbfa* 



4 crofas = 1 yojana. 



The Lildvafi alfo informs us of the meafures ufed 

 for arable land, which are fimilar to thofe now in ufe. 



10 hands = I van/a , or bam- 



boo cane. 



20 van/as (in length and breadth) =: 1 niranga of ara- 

 ble land. 



Divifions of time are noticed in the firfb chapter of 

 Menu, (v. 64.) 



18 nimejhasy or the twinklings of an eye, = 1 cdjhfha. 

 30 c aft f has - = 1 cald. 



30 calds = 1 eft ana. 



12 cjhanas = 1 muhurta. 



30 muhurtas =1 day and 



night, (according to mean folar time.) 



From this he proceeds to the divifions of the civil 

 year. 



15 days and nights (abordtra) — 1 pacfta, or interval 



between the fizygies. 

 firft and laft pacfta = 1 month. 



2 months 



* If the cubit be taken at eighteen inches, then 4000 yards zz 

 1 ftandard crofa-zr.1 miles and a quarter nearly : and 2000 yards— 



1 computed crofazzzi mile and one eighth: and Major Rennel 

 ftates the cro's as fixed by Acber at 5000 gez 33 4757 yards — 



2 Britifti miles and 5 furlongs ; and the average common cros at 

 one mile flatute and nine tenths. 



