off-topic. No. of members with name Venkat (active?) has become 4 now. (Venkat, Venkateshwaran, Venkatesh Vinjamoor and now Venkat Raghavan), I don't know how many more silent members are there...
Adaleesan....welcome...wow what a name...quite unique, tamil...
And Thanks Venkat for the detail. Its really fascinating to see that our ancestors measurements are so perfect....and today we claim that we are more advanced than our ancestors.
Hi Yes when we were taught parts of Silappathikaram in Tamil class, the teacher said one kaadham is about ten miles. When Kannagi asks Kavundi adigal , " How much more to walk to Madurai?" Adigal says ,"Aindaru Kaadha Dooram" . This was explained that though the distance was actually 30 kaadhams i.e 5 by 6 (300 miles), Kavundi adigal says aindaru so that Kannagi thinks it is 5or6 & does not lose the will to walk.
Hi I don't expect a tamil teacher to be good in math! Also am an inv banker(engineer/fin grad) don't expect me to be good in tam, inumkkooda kooti kooti than padipeyn But will mail you the complete tamizh chronometry