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we find the height of man to be seventy-five angulas 1 ; 

 and their fathom, eighty. Century after century the height 

 of man is reduced by three kola. The height of a child born 

 in that age, 2 is fifteen and three-quarter angulas, by the 

 finger's breadth of a man of the present age. The growth 

 of man is at the rate of two and-a-quarter angula per year, 

 from his birth to the completion of his twenty-sixth year. 

 Then his height in his twenty-sixth year is seventy-four 

 and-a-quarter angulas. The height of a child born in 

 Buddha's age was eighteen and-a-quarter angulas in 

 Buddha's angula. He grew till thirty-three years of age, 

 at the rate of two and three-eighth angulas ; and when he 

 had attained his thirty-third year he was 129 inches by the 

 carpenter's cubit. 



(i The maximum age of man in Buddha 's time (Ransisuriya- 

 bandhu continues) ivas 100 years. That of man at present 

 is seventy-seven. Thirty-four angulas of an ordinary man of 

 Buddha's age are equal to twenty-four and-a-quarter inches 

 of the carpenter's cubit. Seven masa, or undu seeds con- 

 stituted the size of the angulas of an ordinary man of 

 Buddha's age. Those kinds of seeds may be taken as 

 equivalent to seeds of paddy. Be it known, that an inch by 

 the carpenter's cubit represented the angula of an ordinary 

 man who lived i 50 years after Buddha. The custom in Siatn 

 at present is to accept one-fourth of a carpenter's inch as a 

 kala, and one kala as four anu-kalas ; that is, at the rate 

 of seven seeds for an arigula. This agrees with the lineal 

 measure given in Abhidhanapadipika, and Sammohavino- 

 daniya." 



Amidst much that is interesting and contradictory, we 

 notice that the writer has made his calculations on the 



1 i. c, six feet three inches, 



2 MS, doubliul, contradictory, 



