Yojana

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Yojana
Unit systemArthashastra
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   SI units   12.8 km ; 16 km (in ancient Cambodia)
   Imperial/US units   2.7 miles

A yojana (Devanagari: योजन; Khmer language: យោជន៍;[1] Thai: โยชน์; Burmese: ယူဇနာ) is a measure of distance that was used in ancient India, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar. Various textual sources from ancient India define Yojana as ranging from 3.5 to 15 km.[2][3]

  1. ^ MISTI (2021). រង្វាស់រង្វាល់ខ្មែរបុរាណនិងសម័យ (PDF) (1st ed.). Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology & Innovation (MISTI). p. 15.
  2. ^ Thapar, Romila (1997). Aśoka and the decline of the Mauryas (PDF) (Revised ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 250–266.
  3. ^ Gupta, C. C. Das (1951). "A NOTE ON AN EXPRESSION IN ROCK EDICT XIII OF AŚOKA". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 14: 68–71. ISSN 2249-1937. JSTOR 44303939.