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2 asati = 1 pasatil 2 pasatīs = 1 setiya 4 setiyās = 1 kulaya 4 kulayas - 1 patthaya 4 patthayas = 1 ādhaya 4 adhayas = 1 dona 60 adhayas = 1 small size kumbha 80 dhayas = 1 medium size kumbha 100 adhayas - 1 full size kumbha
800 adhayas = 1 vāha.
In this connection, our Text gives the following names of receptacles used for storing cereals--muttoli, murava, iddara, alimda, and apavāri (sutta No. 319). The liquids were measured by adding one fourth part extra to the quantity contained in the measures for cereals. The extra quantity added here was in imitation of the extra quantity of cereals placed conically at the top of the measures used for weighing cereals. The measures for liquids are as follows (sutta No. 320):
I causațțhiyā (1 māni/64)=4 palas 1 battisiya (1 māpi/32) = 8 palas 1 solassiyā (1 māņi/16) = 16 palas 1 atthabhaiya (1 mapi/8)=32 palas 1 caubhāiyā (1 māņi/4)=64 palas 1 addhamani (1 māņi/2)=128 palas 1 māņi
= 256 palas The following liquid-containers are mentioned in this connection: văraga, ghad aga, karaga, kalasiya, gaggari, daiya, karodi, and kumdia.
66. The second kind of measures called ummāna which were used. for weighing such articles as leaves, incence, sugar, molasses, and the like are listed as follows (sutta No. 322-323):
2 half-karisas - 1 karisa (vide footnote on pasati in 65) 2 karisas = 1 half pala (that is; 1 pala = 4 karisas)
1. 1 asai 1 handful of serieals (Commentary, p. 140 B).
1 prasīta - 2 palas (Monier's Sanskrit-English Dictionary, s.v. prasyta). 1 pala=4 karisa (vide infra, 66) 1 karisa (Skt. karşa) - 16 maşas=80 rettis = 1/4 pala = 1/400 Tula-about 178 grains troy-Monier's Sanskrit-English Dictionary, s.v. karşa, The karşa is thus also the equivalent of the suvanna of our Text (vide infra, 69 where 16 kammamāsas (māşas referred to above) are equated to 1 suvanna). In our Text (vide infra, 66), 1 tulā 105 palas, which roughly tallics with Monier's description.
