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STANDARD OF MEASUREMENT OF LANDS
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330. Then what is the standard (of measurement) of lands?1 The standard (of measurement) of lands is stated to be twofold, viz.
(i) concerned with the space-points (of land to be measured), and (ii) concerned with the various types (of other measurements of land).
331. Then what is (the standard of measurment of land) concerned with the space-points? (The examples of the standard of of land concerned with the space-points are (as
measurement
follows):
A body occupying one space-point, a body occupying two spacepoints, ...up to...a body occupying numerable space-points, a body occupying innumerable space-points.
This is (the standard of measurement of land) concerned with the space-points.
332. Then what is (the standard of measurement of land) concerned with the various types (of other measurements of land)? (The standard of measurement of land) concerned with various types (of other measurements of land) is given (in the following verse) :
(The standards of measurement of land, concerned with various types of other measurements of land) are to be understood as amgula (breadth of finger), vihatthi (=12 amgulas), rayani (24 amgulas), kucchi (=48 amgulas), (then damda), dhanu, (juga, naliya, akkha and musalaeach of damda etc. being equal to 96 amgulas); gauya (=2000 dhanus), joyana (=8000 dhanus), seḍhi (innumerable koti koti joyaņas), payara (seḍhiseḍhi) and loga (world, payara seḍhi) as well as aloga (non-world, which is infinite) //95//2
333. Then what is an amgula ? The amgula is threefold, viz.
(i) ayamgula (breadth of one's own finger, that is, breadth of the finger of conspicuous personalities of different ages), (ii) ussehamgula (a determinate measure obtained at the end of a series starting with the measure of a practical material atom, each succeeding measure beginning from sanhasanhiya being 8 times its immediately preceding measure. This is used for measuring the space occupied by various living beings4),
1. Vide su pra, sutta No. 313.
Vide infra, sutta No, 345 and 361.
3. Vide infra, sutta No. 344.
4. Vide infra, sutta No. 346.
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