| Sir Henry Miers Elliot - Hindi language - 1845 - 494 pages
...is beyond question, ns between Muttra and Canouje, and between Palna and Benares, we find tho Yojan in his time to be as nearly as possible seven English...we find the Yojan to be, if we resolve it into its coui)-onent parts. Eight barley-corns equal a finger, twenty-four fingers equal a Dund, one thousand... | |
| James Prinsep - India - 1858 - 660 pages
...is beyond question, as between Muttra and Canouje, and between Patna and Benares, we find the Yojan in his time to be as nearly as possible seven English...agrees much better with what we find the Yojan to he, if we resolve it into its component parts. Eight barley-corns equal a finger, twenty-four fingers... | |
| Sir Henry Miers Elliot - Caste - 1869 - 418 pages
...is beyond question, as between Muttra and Kanouj, and between Patna and Benares, we find the yojan in his time to be as nearly as possible seven English...barley-corns equal a finger, twenty-four fingers equal a Band, one thousand Bands equal one Krosa, and four Krosa one Yojan. Now, estimating the fingers' breadth... | |
| Sir Henry Miers Elliot - Caste - 1869 - 430 pages
...Benares, we find the yojan in his time to be as nearly as possible seven 196 SUPPLEMENTAL GLOSSARY. English miles ; and this agrees much better with what...barley-corns equal a finger, twenty-four fingers equal a Dand, one thousand Dands equal one Krosa, and four Krosa one Yojan. Now, estimating the fingers' breadth... | |
| Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Sri Lanka - 1882 - 554 pages
...Canouje, and between Patua and Benares, we find the yojan in his time to be as nearly as possible 7 English miles ; and this agrees much better with what...yojan to be, if we resolve it into its component parts : — 8 barley corns = 1 finger [angula]. 24 fingers = 1 dund. 1,000 dund = 1 krosa. 4 krosa = 1 yojan.... | |
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