Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c74.s2.146

v2.c74.s2.146

The Aparājita-pracchā, sūtra 200 (vide Pr. Lakṣ. p. 122-23) has some innovations to offer regarding the dāruja - icon of a liṅga or for the matter of any image. It first gives the names of nine liṅgas like Makarendu, etc. and then enumerates the trees like Candana, Devadāru, etc. as the fit trees, the wood of which should be employed; in the end it directs that a wooden icon of liṅga should not be made in lesser proportions than sixteen aṅgulas. It further prescribes that a wooden liṅga should be installed only in a wooden temple the nilaya—‘दारुजे दारुजं शस्तं’ etc.