The Shulbasutras of Baudhayana, Apastamba, Katyayana and Manava: With Text, English Translation and Commentary c7.336

c7.336

To the west of the *āhavanīya* is constructed the four-sided elongated figure of which the length has the measure of the sacrificer (96 *aṅgulas*). A cord equal to this measure is increased by itself and a mark given at the middle. With the two ties (of the cord) fastened to the (poles at the) south-western and south-eastern corners, it is stretched towards the south by the mark and a pole fixed (at the spot reached by the mark). Fixing both ends of the cord at this pole, an arc of a circle is drawn from the south-western to the south-eastern corner (with the middle mark of the cord). The same is done on the northern side (of the fire-altar). The western and the eastern sides are to be similarly circumscribed by means of a cord double the (respective) side.