sentences:  Elderly people in many rural areas of the Indian subcontinent still refer to distances from nearby areas in kos.Most Hindu religious Parikrama circuits are measured in kos, such as 720 kos parikrama of Kurukshetra.Along India's old highways, particularly the Grand Trunk Road, one still finds 16th to early 18th century "Kos Minars", or mile markers, erected at distances of a little over two miles.