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    The document outlines ancient Indian units of length as described in Kautilya's Artha Shastra, ranging from the angul, the width of a finger, up to the yojana at nearly 15 km. It notes that the krosh, at around 3.66 km, was used to mark distances along old highways with kos minars or mile markers placed a little over two miles apart.

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    The document outlines ancient Indian units of length as described in Kautilya's Artha Shastra, ranging from the angul, the width of a finger, up to the yojana at nearly 15 km. It notes that the krosh, at around 3.66 km, was used to mark distances along old highways with kos minars or mile markers placed a little over two miles apart.

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    The document outlines ancient Indian units of length as described in Kautilya's Artha Shastra, ranging from the angul, the width of a finger, up to the yojana at nearly 15 km. It notes that the krosh, at around 3.66 km, was used to mark distances along old highways with kos minars or mile markers placed a little over two miles apart.

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    Kautilya's Artha Shastra, gives this breakup of Indian units of length:

     1 Angul (approximate width of a finger) = approx. 3/4 of present day inch;


     4 Angul = Dharnugrah (bow grip) = 3 in;
     8 Angul = 1 Dhanurmushti (fist with thumb raised) = 6 in;
     12 Angul = 1 Vitastaa (span-distance of stretched out palm between the tips of a person's
    thumb and the little finger) = 9 in;
     2 Vitastaa (from the tip of the elbow to the tip of the middle finger) = 1 Aratni or Hast
    (cubit or Haath) = 18 in;
     4 Aratni (Haath) = 1 Dand or Dhanush (bow) = 6 ft;
     10 Dand = 1 Rajju = 60 ft;
     2 Rajju = 1 Paridesh = 120 ft;
     2000 Dand (Dhanush) = 1 Krosh or Gorut = 4000 yards or 2 1/4 miles - nearly 3.66 km;
     4 Krosh = 1 Yojan = 9 miles - nearly 15 km;

    Along India's old highways, particularly the Grand Trunk Road, one still finds Kos Minar, or
    mile markers, erected at distances of a little over two miles

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