Elements of Hindu Iconography v2.c16.s10.65
Elements of Hindu Iconography v2.c16.s10.65
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v2.c16.s10.65
The size of the sacrificial kuṇḍa is then given as follows: the kuṇḍa should have three mēkhalas (broad tiers going round the central pit in which the fire is kindled) each of twelve aṅgulas in width and the extreme length of the whole kuṇḍa including the mēkhalas being 22 aṅgulas. In the pit of the kuṇḍa, the fire should be shown as possessing seven or five jvālas or tongues of flame which ought to be a fourth of the height of Brahmā; and the breadth of the flames of fire must be half their height. The aṅgula mentioned here is the dēhalabdha-aṅgula of the central figure of Śiva.