The Shulbasutras of Baudhayana, Apastamba, Katyayana and Manava: With Text, English Translation and Commentary c8.t24.6

c8.t24.6

The direction for the placement of 8 B₄ bricks on each of the two ends of the wings and at their junctions with the body is clear. About the four corners of the body, the commentators explain that 4 B₄s should be placed at each along west-east or east-west. At the junctures, these bricks lie 6 *aṅgulas* within the body, leaving a rectangular space 228 × 120 ang² in the body (*sandhāntarāla*) to be filled by B₂ bricks and their quarters, B₅. Clearly, there can be only 9 rows of 5 B₂ bricks each,