Designers of the 17th century Taj Mahal employed the same unit of measurement used by the Harappan civilisation as far back as 2000 BC. According to <a href="http://www.iitk.ac.in/mme/rbala/index.htm">R Balasubramaniam</a> of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, a unit of measurement called the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Au1e45gula">angulam</a> was used without a break in India <a href="http://www.gulfnews.com/world/India/10330118.html">for over 3,900 years</a>. This can be linked back to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthashastra">Arthashastra of Kautilya</a>. However, if you are willing to look beyond the Arthashastra, you will also find a reference to the angulam in the <a href="http://vedabase.net/sb/10/9/16/">Srimad Bhagavatam</a>.

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