Hasta (measure)
Encyclopedia
The hasta is a traditional India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n unit
Units of measurement
A unit of measurement is a definite magnitude of a physical quantity, defined and adopted by convention and/or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same physical quantity. Any other value of the physical quantity can be expressed as a simple multiple of the unit of...

 of length
Length
In geometric measurements, length most commonly refers to the longest dimension of an object.In certain contexts, the term "length" is reserved for a certain dimension of an object along which the length is measured. For example it is possible to cut a length of a wire which is shorter than wire...

, measured from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. It equals 24 aṅgula
Angula
The word Angula may refer to one of the following:* Aṅgula, a measure equal to a finger's breadth* Eel, a biological order of fish* Nahas Angula, current Prime Minister of Namibia....

s
orᅠ about 18 inch
Inch
An inch is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, and United States customary units. There are 36 inches in a yard and 12 inches in a foot...

es, about 45 centimetres.

400 hastas make one nalva
Nalva
Nalva is a measure of distance equal to 400 Hastas . That is equal to 9600 Aṅgula, which is believed to be equal to approximately 18 metres.Used in Mahābhārata....

.
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK