D. D. Kosambi, An Intro. to the Study of Indian Hist.

Hali — The grand annual holi festival (without sacrifice, but with obscene shouts, drinking, and bonfires) is a futility orgy that may be traced back to the late Stone ages, p. 150.

Large neolithic deposits of ashes, with a few animal bones (from the sacrifices), and rain-compacted strata prove annual or periodic recurrence in the same locality of sacrifices associated with gigantic holi bonfires. Here is proof that the agrarian economy had won at last, the pastoral life and ritual were finally defeated. p. 130.

On 7 Journal of the Arch. sur., Hyderabad, II,

योजन — means the distance a bullock-cart carvan could travel between in-spanning and outspanning. the route from Sravasti to Taxila was taken as 197 yojanas in length... 4½ to 5 miles. p. 191.