Generally, weights and measurements are the most important part of our life we can observe everything around us regarding measurements. Everything we are using in our daily life that somewhere its touched with measurements.eg. our day, night, weeks, months, year time seconds, minutes, hours, our age, life span. in short, our whole life is sounded by measurements and calculations like other things.
The lac of knowledge about the weights and measures
poses the great problem in every field. But in case of manufacturing of drugs,
dosage forms and time to take the medicine is very important in the health
field. Without it a good effected production is impossible, dispensing and
without proper knowledge about dose of the drug and time to taken it must be Couse
health issues.
Here between in the Era of Ayurveda or vedic there is a Sanskrit terminology which use to measure time, weights, volumes. Will converted into Mordern measuring system and approved by Indian Standards Institution.
Weights and measures describe in Ayurvedic classics and their metric equivalents adopted by ayurvedic pharmacopoeia committee.
Measurement of Time
|
Metric
Equivalents |
||
|
2 kasana |
1 lava |
|
|
2 lava |
1nimesa |
|
|
3 nimesa |
1 kastha |
4.66 sec |
|
1 ghati |
|
24 minutes |
|
30 kastha |
1 kala |
2 minutes 20 sec |
|
20 kala +3 kastha |
1 muhurta |
48 minutes |
|
1 yama (prahara) |
|
3 hours |
|
30 muhurta |
1 Ahoratra |
24 hours |
|
15 Ahoratra |
1 paksa |
15 days |
|
2 paksa |
1masa |
30 days |
|
2 masa |
1 rtu |
60 days/ 2 months |
|
3 rtus |
1Ayana |
6 months |
|
2Ayana |
1 samvatsrar |
12 months/1year |
|
5 Samvatsara |
1 yuga |
5 years |
|
1 Ahoratra of
Devas |
1 year |
|
|
1 Ahoratra of
pitaras |
1year |
|
Linear Measure
|
Inches |
Metric
Equivalents |
|
|
Yavodara |
1/8’’
of 3/4’’ |
0.24 cm |
|
Angula |
3/4’’ |
1.95 cm |
|
Vitasti |
9’’ |
22.86 cm |
|
Aratni |
16 1/2’’ |
41.91 cm |
|
Hasta |
18’’ |
45.72 cm |
|
Nrpahasta
(Raj-hasta) |
22’’ |
55.88 cm |
|
Vyama |
72’’ |
182.88 cm |
Weights and Measures
|
Ayurvedic terminology |
Morden conversion |
|
|
1 Raktika/ Gunja |
|
125 mg |
|
8 Raktika |
1 masa |
1g |
|
3 masa |
1 shan |
3g |
|
4 masa |
1 tanka |
4g |
|
1dharana |
|
4.8g |
|
2 shan |
1 kola |
6g |
|
2 1/2 dharana |
1 karsa |
12g |
|
12 masa |
1 karsa (tola/Aksa/picu/tolalk) |
12g |
|
2
karsa |
1 sukti |
24g |
|
2 sukti |
1 pala |
48g |
|
2 pala |
1 prasruti |
96g |
|
2 prasruti |
1 kudava |
192g |
|
2 kudava |
1 manika |
384g |
|
2 manika |
1 prastha |
768g |
|
4 prastha |
1 Adhaka (9 patra) |
3 kg. 72g |
|
4 Adhaka |
1 drona |
12 kg. 288g |
|
2 Drona |
1 surpa |
24 kg 576g |
|
2 Surpa |
1 Droni |
49kg.800 g |
|
4 Droni |
1 khari |
196kg.608g |
|
100 papla |
1 tula |
4 kg 800g |
|
20 tula |
1 bhara |
96 kg |
