Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.45

c4.45

The fourth chapter of the *Mánasára* contains rules for the construction of the plough, and directions for ploughing the ground, preparatory to erecting temples, &c. "A plough," says the author, "must be made of the *chadira*,[^asterisk] *nimba*,dagger or of the wood of any other milky tree. It must be from one to one and a half *hasta* in length, with a tapering point resembling the leaf of a *bambu*, furnished with a share of three, five, or six *angulas* long and two thick, and with a beam of three yards in length. This machine is to be yoked to a pair of oxen of equal size and of the same colour, either white, black, red, or gray. The oxen should be strong, and such as have not exceeded the middle age. Oxen with horns bent down, maimed, weak, meagre, toothless, or lame, should be rejected; those with a white