Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c74.s2.155

v2.c74.s2.155

Here in this extract the first line very briefly indicates the procedure how to purify a ling-stone at the mountain. Further, the lines 2-15 describe the signs on the stone-slab both auspicious and inauspicious Padmākāra, Svastika, Śaṅkhābha, Cakrasannibha, Chatrākṛti, Dhvajākāra, Triśūlākṛti, Matsya-makara-kūrmābha, Govṛṣabhākṛti, Vajrakhadgākṛti, Daṇḍābha, Cāmarākṛti, etc. are the auspicious signs and are said to be conducive to the well-being and prosperity both of the Sthapatis, the sculptors, and the Sthāpakas, the priest-representatives of their patrons, the donors, the Yajamāns. Similarly Samudravicisaṅkāśa and Maṇḍalākṛtika—these two signs are also hailed very auspicious. Indrāyudhanibha line is good for all casts. Then follow the colour-signs and they are traditional, white, red and yellow and black good for Brāhmaṇas, etc., the four castes respectively. The text is emphatic about the unbroken line as auspicious, otherwise (*i. e.* broken and having dots, the bindus on it) inauspicious. The further signs as enumerated in the text as in-auspicious are :—