[Advaita-l] Who is this Angustha Parimana Purusha?

[Sujal Upadhyay]

Namaste,

Thank you. I think they are approximate measurements, to make location of
chakra-s easy.

angushta means big toe. Am I correct?

OM

Sujal Upadhyay

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On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Sunil Bhattacharjya via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste,
>
> I think ir is 96 angulas, not angusthas. While the height of a person is
> 96 angula, the ShassrAra chakra is at the height of 108 angulas.
>
> Regards,
> Sunil K. Bhattacharjya
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Sat, 4/2/16, Venkata sriram P via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>  Subject: [Advaita-l] Who is this Angustha Parimana Purusha?
>  To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
>  Date: Saturday, April 2, 2016, 1:27 AM
>
>  नमस्ते,
>
>  "Thumb" was one of the ancient measuring scales. "Palm" was
>  also used.
>
>  So, the height of one's body was measured in terms of one's
>  thumb, in general
>  (to be precise - the distance FROM the dark line in the
>  middle of the thumb TO
>  the origin of the thumb).
>
>  The त्रिषिखि
>  ब्राह्मणोपनिषद् says:
>
>  देहमानं
>  स्वाङ्गुलिभिः
>  षण्णवत्यङ्गुलायतम् ।
>  प्राणः शरीरादधिको
>  द्वादशाङ्गुलमानतः
>
>  The measure of one's body is 96 times of the size of one's
>  own thumb.
>
>  Hence, अङ्गुष्ठ प्रमाण
>  पुरुषः should be taken from this perspective
>  rather than
>  splitting the meaning from metaphysical perspective.
>
>  श्रीरामकिंकरः
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