Height and the angula
Measured by one's own finger: the three heights of Brihat Samhita, 108, 96 and 84 angulas.
- 6-minute lesson
- Basic course: Samudrika Shishya
- Samudrika Shastra
- Your own measure
- Three heights
- Today
A first look at the lesson
An angula is the breadth of a person's own finger. Measuring someone in their own angulas makes the measure fit any size of body.
Brihat Samhita gives three heights: 108 angulas is tall, 96 medium and 84 short. The same 108 measure is used for the images of deities.
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More lessons on this subject
- Tala: proportions of the bodyThe face as a unit of measure: how image-makers count a body in talas, and what a reader notes.
- What Samudrika Shastra isAn old Indian study of the whole body's marks and features, where it sits in Jyotish, and what it is not.
- The texts of SamudrikaBrihat Samhita, the Garuda Purana, Samudrika Tilaka, the Jain Angavijja and Charaka: what each gives.
- Reading old texts todayThe texts reflect their age; the fixed limits every Samudrika reader keeps, and why.
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