Four Stages of Life - Verse 97-98

The measure of their length and diameter was fixed by them. 1 They built houses on this basis just as they thought fit. A unit was termed Pradeia—a distance between the (extended) thumb and the (outstretched) forefinger. The distance between the thumb and the middle finger (when both are stretched) was Tala and that between the thumb and the ring figer was Gokarna.