The Shulbasutras of Baudhayana, Apastamba, Katyayana and Manava: With Text, English Translation and Commentary c8.t23.5

c8.t23.5

The arrangement of bricks is shown in Fig. 9 The *adhyardā-pañcami* (*B*₂) bricks at each juncture of the wing with the body are placed such that 24 *aṅgulas* lie within the body and 12 *aṅgulas* in the wing, as explained by the commentators (*ātmānama-ratninā prādeśena pakṣamityarthaḥ*—Karavinda). In the tail, the *B*₂ bricks on each side may start from the upper end at the junction with the body, leaving 12 *aṅgulas* (*prādeśakṣetra*) at the end, as it appears from Sundararāja, or from the western end of the tail leaving the *prādeśakṣetra* adjacent to the body, as is preferred by Karavinda. Both Sundararāja and Karavinda place 2 *B*₄ bricks at each end of the *prādeśakṣetra* and 4 *B*₃s in the middle (Fig. 9(a)). Kapardi places 2 *B*₃s in the middle flanked on each side by 3 *B*₄s (Fig. 9(b)). In the former arrangement, the number of bricks total 166, and in the latter 168, as detailed in Table 1.