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MATHEMATICAL CALCULATION OF One “Gaim” or “Kadam” i.e. Pace 355
This “Gaim” or step is a technical scientific term, and is to be
calculated in a certain way, and is to be reckoned in relation with the
height of the individual and the intensity of the Sun's rays in a
particular degree of latitude. The “Gaim” or step for different persons
of different heights in the same place is different, and for the same
person in different places also it is different. The following is the role
for finding the average "Gaim” for a person for the year in a certain
place: -
On the 21st of March when the Sun has entered the sign of Aries
(Burz-i-hamal) let the person stand out in an open place about 40 minutes
before 12 noon. The length of the shadow cast by his body is one “Gaim”
average for that person and in that place. Hence near the equator one
“Gaim” for the same person will be the shortest, and as he recedes further
away from the equator the “steps” will be longer and longer.
This law of measuring one “Gaim” or “step” for every individual
is based on the working of the Sun's rays both visible and invisible, and
the function of the air in every activity going on on the earth. Whereas
at the equator the intensity of the Sun's rays is greater, the "Gaim"
measured becomes shorter, and as the intensity nearer the temperate
zones becomes smaller the "Step" is naturally greater. Hence the rule to
be remembered is this-the "length of one “Gaim" or Kadam or Step
mentioned in the Vendidad varies inversely with the intensity of the
Sun's rays i.e. the product of the length of one Gaim and the intensity of
the Sun's rays is always a constant. According to the "Aspandi" or
intensity-power of every species of Drujih and the circuit of the
divergence of its influence, different numbers of such “Gaim” or
"Steps” are given in the Vendidad and other lost Nasks for observing
the distance of aloofness from the source of Drujih. Thus we notice that
Avesta is full of technical terms, and the word "Gaim" rendered
philologically as a "Step", is quite incomplete in sense, unless the term
"Gaim" is technically defined as above. It appears therefore that the socalled
Later Avesta were not composed by some ignorant priests, but
that they are derived from the 21 Nasks of the prophet himself and
cover the best science of the unseen laws of nature.