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396-400. The architect should put on special dress, and his five limbs should be duly ornamented; and on an auspicious moment of a good *lagna* (conjunction of planets), amidst the pronouncement of victory and other auspicious sounds, and while the Brahmans utter the sound of *svasti* (may there be good) to their utmost, the dome-nail (*stūpī-kīla*) should be held up by the architect together with the workmen (*sthāpaka*) and be placed in the pit, and the essential part of the incantation (*mūla-mantra*) should be pronounced.