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bottom and wide top), prakar (parapet wall), attalak (bastion on a rampart), charıka (an eight cubit wide pathway between moat and rampart), dvar (door), gopur (main gate of entrance into a town), toran (arch), prasad (palace), ghar (house), sharan (thatched hut), layan (a dugout or cave on a hill), apan (shop or marketplace), shringatak (a triangular marketplace), trik (meeting point of three roads), chatushk (meeting point of four roads), chatvar (a square, court, circus or plaza), chaturmukh (a temple with gates on all four sides), mahapath (highway), path (path or street), shakat (bullockcart), rath (chariot), yan (vehicle), yugya (palanquin), gulli (howda or a seat on elephant's back), thıllı (a coach driven by two horses), shivika (covered palanquin), syandaman (a palanquin as long as a
man), loha (a steel pan or concave platen), lohakatah (steel cauldron), kadachi (serving spoons), asan (seat), shayan (bed), stambh (pillar), bhand (earthen pots), amatra (bronze vessels) and other household equipment and accessories as also distances like yojan (eight miles).
Elaboration--The term asjakaligai conveys that measure of atmangul was standardized during a particular epoch according to the physical dimensions of the people of that era Thus as standard it is variable All other units like yojan were fixed according to the measure of atmangul only
आत्मांगुल के तीन भेद __ ३३७. से समासओ तिविहे पण्णत्ते। तं जहा-१. सूइअंगुले, २. पयरंगुले, ३. घणंगुले।
१. अंगुलायता एगपदेसिया सेढी सूइअंगुले, २. सूई सूईए गुणिया पयरंगुले, ३. पयरं सूईए गुणितं घणंगुले। __३३७. आत्मांगुल सामान्य से तीन प्रकार का है-(१) सूच्यंगुल, (२) प्रतरांगुल, तथा (३) घनांगुल। ___ (१) एक अगुल लम्बी और एक प्रदेश चौडी आकाशप्रदेशों की श्रेणि-पक्ति का
नाम सूच्यगुल है; (२) सूच्यंगुल को सूच्यंगुल से गुणा करने पर प्रतरागुल होता है; तथा (३) प्रतरांगुल को सूच्यंगुल से गुणा करने पर घनांगुल होता है।
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