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The Yōjana and the Parasang

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

J. F. Fleet
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , April 1912 , pp. 462 - 463
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1912

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page 462 note 2 I use 39·37 inches as the sufficiently close value of the metre.

page 463 note 1 M. Decourdemanche has not mentioned either the short yōjana or the ancient original krōśa of 4000 hasta: he has the later double krōśa of 8000 hasta. He has called this parasang the “parasange d'étapes.” He has also a “parasange (schæne)” of 6903·36 metres (nine-tenths of the other), = 4·28954045 miles.