kmohan

Avinashji

I am sorry. I didn't read carefully enough to see that your

query was specifically directed to Sri Jndas.

Jndasji

I am sorry. I didn't mean to offend you by replying ahead of

you. I just happened to be reading the chapter and saw the

relevant verse and remembered Avinash's post. So I posted it

here.

Srimad Bhagavatam Third Canto, Chapter Eleven ( by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)

TEXT 9

dvadasardha-palonmanam

caturbhis catur-angulaih

svarna-masaih krta-cchidram

yavat prastha jala-plutam

dvadasa-ardha--six; pala--of the scale of weight; unmanam--measuring pot; caturbhih--by weight of four; catuh-angulaih--four fingers by measure; svarna--of gold; masaih--of the weight; krta-chidram--making a hole; yavat--as long as; prastha--measuring one prastha; jala-plutam--filled by water.

TRANSLATION

The measuring pot for one nadika, or danda, can be prepared with a six-pala-weight [fourteen ounce] pot of copper, in which a hole is bored with a gold probe weighing four masa and measuring four fingers long. When the pot is placed on water, the time before the water overflows in the pot is called one danda.

PURPORT

It is advised herein that the bore in the copper measuring pot must be made with a probe weighing not more than four masa and measuring not longer than four fingers. This regulates the diameter of the hole. The pot is submerged in water, and the overflooding time is called a danda. This is another way of measuring the duration of a danda, just as time is measured by sand in a glass. It appears that in the days of Vedic civilization there was no dearth of knowledge in physics, chemistry or higher mathematics. Measurements were calculated in different ways, as simply as could be done.

also,

One truti - 8/13,500 second

One vedha - 8/135 second

One lava - 8/45 second

One nimesa - 8/15 second

One ksana - 8/5 second

One kastha - 8 seconds

One laghu - 2 minutes

One danda - 30 minutes

One prahara - 3 hours

One day - 12 hours

One night - 12 hours

One paksa - 15 days

Why, in the opinion of Gaudiya Vaisnavas, is the desire for liberation a material desire?