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The Yojana and the Li

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

J. F. Fleet
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , October 1906 , pp. 1011 - 1013
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1906

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page 1011 note 1 This measure, occasionally perhaps called also paurusha, is not to be confused with a measure, called properly paurusha but sometimes purusha, which was the measure of a man standing up with his arms and hands stretched up over his head. The accepted length of the paurusha was 5 hasta = 120 aṅgula.

page 1012 note 1 Putting the case reversely, we see that the yōjana of 32,000 hasta was obtained by taking ¾ of this other yōjana. For that there was a good reason, in ancient custom, which will be explained in due course.