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20-22. In the bright or dark fortnight of all months, on an auspicious moment of auspicious *lagna* (meeting), *nakshatra* (planets), and *yoga* (conjunction), both the chief architect (*sthapati*) and the chief assistant (*sthāpaka*) should make the pit (for casting the image) with the usual incantations (*mantra*).