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³⁴ ‘Baudhāyana Śulva Sūtra’, II. 62-86; “In the case of the Chandaściti, the Agnicit, the builder of the Fire-altar, draws on the ground the Agni of prescribed shape. He then goes through the whole prescribed process of construction imagining all the while that he is placing every brick in its proper place with the rhythmic formula (mantra) that belongs to it. The mantras are recited but the bricks are not actually laid. The Chandaściti thus is the Citi or altar made up of Chandas, rhythms, or mantras instead of bricks or loose mud pieces (B. B. Dutt, ‘The Science of the Śulba’, p. 3, note).—Cf. the 36,000 Fire-altars made of mind, speech, breath, etc. ; ‘Vedānta Sūtra’, III. 3. 44 (Śaṅkarācārya’s comm.).