Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c3.36

c3.36

The total number of *sūtras* is 519. The work begins with definitions of the measures used in the constructions and the geometrical propositions employed in designing them; there follows a description of the spatial relations in different altars; and finally there come the rules for constructing the *gārhapatyaciti* and *chandaściti* (*khaṇḍa* 7), the *śyenacit* (*khaṇḍas* 8–9), the *vakrapakṣa vyastapuccha* (*khaṇḍas* 10–11), the *kaṅkacit* (*khaṇḍa* 12), the *ajalacit* (*khaṇḍa* 13), the *praügacit* (*khaṇḍa* 14), the *ubhayataḥ praüga* (*khaṇḍa* 15), the *rathakracit* (*khaṇḍa* 16), the *droṇacit* (*khaṇḍas* 17–18), the *śmaśānacit* (*khaṇḍa* 19), and the *kūrmacit* (*khaṇḍas* 20–21). The Baudhāyana was commented on by Dvārakānātha Yajvan,²³ whose *Śulbadīpikā* was composed after Āryabhaṭa, and by Veṅkateśvara Dīkṣita, who wrote his *Śulbamīmāṃsā* in the Vijayanagara kingdom in about 1600.