Adhyaya 49 — Primordial Human Creation, the Rise of Desire, and the Origins of Settlements, Measures, and Agriculture
क्रमादष्टगुणान्याहुर्यवानष्टौ तथाङ्गुलम् ।
षडङ्गुलं पदं तच्च वितस्तिर्द्विगुणं स्मृतम् ॥
kramād aṣṭa-guṇāny āhur yavān aṣṭau tathā aṅgulam | ṣaḍ-aṅgulaṃ padaṃ tac ca vitastir dvi-guṇaṃ smṛtam ||
وبالترتيب يقررون أن كل مقدار يساوي ثمانية أضعاف ما قبله. ثمانية «يَفا (yava)» تصنع «أنغولا (aṅgula)» أي عرض الإصبع. وستة «أنغولا» تصنع «بادا (pada)» أي القدم. و«فيتاستي (vitasti)» تُذكر على أنها ضعف ذلك.
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Purāṇas often encode practical knowledge: civic order (town-planning, land grants, ritual altars) requires shared standards. The verse models how tradition stabilizes society through agreed measures.
Ancillary to Sarga/Sthiti descriptions—technical scaffolding for geographical and civic descriptions rather than a direct Manvantara or Vaṃśa narrative.
Using the body as measure (aṅgula, span) reflects the microcosm–macrocosm idea: human embodiment becomes the template for mapping and ordering external space.