i yo rajsy amimta sukratur

vaivnaro vi divo rocan kavi

pari yo viv bhuvanni paprathe
dabdho gop amtasya rakit
RV 6.7.7
The skillful one, who measured out the atmospheric realms,
is the sage Vaivnara who [measured] out the starry heaven
who spread around all the worlds
the irresistible guardian, the protector of immortality.
Notably, that Gauri who was described in the RV and AV (see above) as the embodi
ment of the syllables in the primal world also needs to be measured out and this
can be done using a god as the measuring rod. This is described Kurusuti Kva:
vcam apadm aha
navasraktim taspam
indrt pari tanvam mame

RV 8.76.12

The syllabary, with eight-feet and nine vertices

is embedded in the natural law, (literally in contact with the natural law)
I have measured out its body by means of Indra.
The same Gauri is also embodied in ritual as a cow who represents the measure of
heaven. In Taittirya sahit 7.1 we have:
sahsra-sammita suvarg lok|
The celestial world is measured in thousands
While the holy cow stands in front of him the ritualist offers with this incanta
tion:
ubh jigyathur n pr jayethe
n pr jigye katar canino |
ndra ca vio yd paspdheth
tredh sahsra v td airayethm ti ||
You two have conquered, you two are not conquered;
Neither of the two of them have been defeated;
Indra and Viu when you two contested,
you had divided the thousand into three. Thus, [he recites].

tredh-vibhakt vi trirtr sahsram | shasrm evin karoti | sahsrasyaivinm mtr k

Thousand is indeed divided into three parts at the three-night [ritual]; he make
s her [the cow] a [symbol] of thousand. He thus makes her the measure of a thous
and.
rpi juhoti | rpir evinm sm ardhayati | tsy upotthya kram japet |
He makes oblations to her forms. He thus furnishes her with her forms. Rising up
he mutters in her ear:
e rnt dite srasvati prye pryasi mhi vruty etni te aghniye nmni |
Ie, Ranti, Aditi, Sarasvati, Priy, Preyasi, Mahi, Viruti, these, O unassailable one,
are your names (Thus, the ritual cow is identified with the goddesses among othe
rs embodying the syllabary of the primal word).
suktam m devu brtd ti | devbhya evinam vedayati | nv ena dev budhyante ||

Declare me as a doer of good among the gods. She indeed lets [this] to be known
to the gods. The gods take note of this.
The world of the heavens is much vaster than this one hence it is symbolic repre
sented as measuring in a bigger unit, the thousand. For the yajamna to let the go
ds know that he is a doer of good, by which he can conquer that celestial realm,
he needs a measuring unit of the thousand. For that he makes the ritual cow a r
epresentative of the goddesses who embody that thousand. Thus, for the rya in rit
ual other than geometry the number played an important role. Indeed, he encompas
sed the base number of all gods of the ruti numbering 33 (12 ditya-s, 11 Rudra-s,
8 Vasu-s and 2 Avins) by measuring out the altar in the form of successive square
s formed of square bricks from 1 to 289. This embodies the relationship:
\displaystyle \sum_{n=0}^{16} (2n+1) = (n+1)^2= 289
Thus the above sequence goes from 1,3,5..33 (spelled out the camaka prana of the
Yajurveda) while the sum of sequence goes from 1^2..17^2. Thus, the first square
is one brick. Adding 3 bricks the next in the sequence on its 3 sides give you
2^2. Adding 5 bricks to sides of this new square gives you 3^2 so on till you ge
t the square of 17. Thus, geometry for the rya was closely linked with number, an
d measurement with a cord and ruler. It was the philosophical consequence of thi
s that marked a subtle point of departure of the Hindus from the Platonic realm
of the yavana-s: one hears of Plato disapproving of the measured constructions f
eature that dominated yavana geometry thereafter. Thus, while geometry and other
Pythagorean mathematical traditions moved into the realm of the ideals as absol
ute-measure-free entities among the yavana-s, they were firmly as part of real w
orld in rya-s emulating the measurements of the universe performed by the great g
ods. Based on what the Kva says even the primal syllabary has to be measured out f
or the construction of the real world.