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sluice-gates for transfer of water, or rows of water-pits; pleasure gardens, park for picnic, forests (with ordinary trees near a town), forest with the same kind of trees, forest with different kinds of trees of superior quality, rows of the same kind or of different kinds of trees; temples, assemblies, shed for supply of water to travellers, stūpas (mounds), ditch with equally wide bottom and top, moat (ditch with narrow bottom and wide top); wall, rampart (attālaga), walk (cariya, which is eight cubits in breadth between the wall and the fort for the movement of elephants, etc.), doors, ornamented gateways (gopura), arch (torana), palace, house, thatched porch, caves (lena), market, triangular place* for marketing (simghadaga), meeting place of three roads, meeting place of four roads, meeting place of six roads (caccara), temples of fourfaced deities (caumuha), highways (maha paha), paths; cart, chariot, vehicle, jugga (a two-cubit sedan chair with square seat), gilli (an ornamented seat on elephant's back), thilli ornamented saddle), covered palanquin (siya) and palanquin as long as a man (samdamāniya); shallow steel plate (lohi), steel couldron, (steel) spoons, seat, bed, pillar, earthen pot (bhamda), and bell-metal vessel (matta) and other accessories (uvagaraña), etc.; and the modern joyanas (are also measured by this ayamgula). 337. This (ayamgula) is stated to be threefold, viz.
(1) sūtiamgula (rectilinear), (2) payaram gula (plane surface),
(3) ghanamgula (cube). (1) The sūiamgula (sic) is a one amgula long row of space-points, with a thickness equal to) one space-point (the breadth also being equal to one space-point, for instance, ...which is a row of three. space-points).
(2) The payaramgula is (equal to) sāyī multiplied by sûyî (for: instance,
which is a square consisting of nine space-points, there
being three space-points on each side). .
(3) The ghanamgula is (equal to) payara multiplied by sūi (sic) (for instance,
which is a cube consisting of 27 space-points).
338. Which of these sūtiamgula, payaramgula and ghanamgulais, O Lord, relatively less or greater or equal or extra-plus ? (The reply
