The Hindu Temple v1.c5.s7.t3.2

v1.c5.s7.t3.2

While the position of the main diagonals is necessarily always one and the same, from the north-east to the south-west and from the south-east to the northwest, there are differences in the number and position of the lesser diagonals. As a rule they are drawn in the square of 81 compartments, across the third and sixth compartment on each side; altogether four lesser diagonals are thus drawn, or else in later texts (‘Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra’, XI. 26-29) eight diagonals are drawn. In the 64 compartments only 4 of the lesser diagonals are drawn (‘Vāstuvidyā’, VI. 25-26).