The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c8.119

c8.119

But when *Nākasad* and *Pañcacūḍā* bricks are employed, after the fourth layer, there will be a sixth layer as the height of these bricks are half the usual height of a brick, *viz.*, the one-fifth of a *jānu* (=32 aṅgulis). This sixth layer is mentioned also in the *Taittirīya Saṃhitā*.²