“But the measuring sticks were not uniform, and across Spain the vara therefore represented different lengths.”

“To the left of Avalokite vara sits the red Hayagriva with hairs horrent and a third additional eye.”

“Surprisingly little confusion is caused by the multivalency of terms such as vara and hou in practice.”

“Spain settled what is now Texas, and with the Spanish people came their way of measuring distance in varas.”

“Night and day she worked on her cloth, and when it was finished she had eight varas.”

“Solares, or house-lots, of twenty by forty varas were given to settlers in numbers equal to the available suertes, field-lots.”