mātra

[apte] a. (trā, --trī f.) [mā-tran] An affix added to nouns in the sense of ‘measuring as much as’, ‘as [Page0858-b+ 57] high or long, or broad as,’ ‘reach- ing as far as;’ as in ūrumātrī bhittiḥ paṃcadaśayojanamātramadhvānamaticakrāma K.; (in this sense the word may as well be considered to be mātrā at the end of comp. q. v. below). --traṃ 1. A measure, whether of length, breadth, height, size, space, dis- tance or...

[mw] traka &c, see p.804, cols. 2, 3. 103161 808,1 162446