Measurement of Eyes, Ears and Head

On either side of the middle vertical line, two vertical lines are situated. The eyes should be carved at the root of the nose in between these two lines, in the place marked by the fifth line of the tweleve quarters of the face-square from above. The length of the eye is two Angulas and width one Angula and irises in the middle of the eyes, the diameters of which is one-third of the eyes and two 101

pupils which should be one-third of the diameter of the black balls. Here the author again mentions the Srkvas as the part of the eyes. tayostu sutrayormadhye kuryajjotirdvayam samam | netrayornavame bhage tarake tu trtiyake || netre ca golake yome tadartham vistrte site || (Saivagamanibandhana, XV, 83-84) Measurement of the eye-brows and ears The two eye-brows should be made between the eyes and the fore-head, and the width of the eye-brows are half of the eyes. The shape of the eye-brow is like a bow. The ears on either side should be made in a line extending the eye-brow. The distance between the end of the eye-brow and the root of the ear is two Kala. The ear measures two Angulas broad and four Angulas long. kapole dvikale caiva karnamuladvinihsrte | rasyatryangulotsedha vistarena kala bhavet || bhrusutrasya samau karnau vistaraddvyamgulau samau caturanguladirgho ca pasau matram ca vistrtau // (Saivagamanibandhana, XV, 87-88) 102

Head Above the ear is the head with twelve Angulas. Behind the forehead half portion is to be carved by eighteen Angulas. It should have a width of thirty six Angulas. The forehead should be in eight Angulas in length and broad by its half. The length between the forehead and the Cibuka is eighteen Angulas. The neck and the shoulder should be eight Angulas wide each. The arm pit should measure six Angulas and the hands six Angulas. The length of the fore-arm should be about fourteen Angulas and the width of the palm seven Angulas. The length of the middle finger should be five Angulas and the two adjacent fingers, the forefinger and the ringfinger, should be less in length than the measurement of the middle finger by one fifth. In the same way, the remaining two fingers, the thumb and the little finger, should be less in length by one fifth of their measurements. In the breast, the nipple on either side measures about one Yava and the surrounding area in two Yavas. The abdominal portion 103

measures about twenty four Angulas and the naval part about four Yavas.