86 ROTAL ASIATIC' SOCIETT,. (CEYLON BRANCH.) 



The small Hashamah gaz* of English. 

 Abu Musa Asharr. ...... = 28f „ ... = 21| in. 



The long- Hashamah gaz of Man- 

 sir 'Abbas = 29f „. ... = 22| „, 



The Umriah gaz. of the Khalif 



Umr = 31 „. =231 ir 



The Mamuniah gaz of Mamun 



'Abbasi = 69i ^ ......... = 52J „, 



The gaz Masahat - = 28 „. ......... = 21 „ 



Sikandar Lodi's gaz of 41 j silver 

 Sikandaris' diameter, modified 



by Humayun to 43 Sikandaris = 32' „ ......... =26 „. 



This was used in land measurements till the 31st year of Akbar.' 5 * 



Major- General Cunningham 2 also puts down the Indian? 

 angula at " somewhat under three quarters of an inch," and,, 

 adds : — 



" By my measurement of 42 copper coins of Srkandi&r Ludi,. 

 which we know to have been aljnbted to fingers' breadths, the 

 angula is '72976 of an inch. Mr. Thomas makes it slightly less,., 

 or *722^9. The mean of our measurements is *72632 of an inch* 

 which may be adopted as the real value of the Indian finger, or 

 angula, as I found the actual measure of many native fingers to- be- 

 invariably under three-quarters of an inch. According to this 

 value the hasta, or cubit, of 24 angulas would be equal to 17*431 6S 

 inches, and the dhanu or " bow," of 96 angulas would be 5*8 1 feet». 

 But as 100 dhanus make one ?ialuja } 100 watwas make one krosa 

 or kos,. it seems probable that the dhanu must have contained 100 

 angulas to preserve the centenary scale. 3 According to this view 



1 These two are also called the Gaz Mullik and Gaz Ziadiah, because- 

 Zfad, the adopted son of Abu SoMn, made use of them for measuring 

 the Arabian Irak. 



2 See his Ancient Geography of India, p. 575. 



3 The same confusion of the numbers 96 and 100 exists in the mone- 

 tary scale, in which we have 2 bdraganis } or ! twelvers/ equal to 1 panchi* 

 or 4 twenty -fiver.' 



