The Shulbasutras of Baudhayana, Apastamba, Katyayana and Manava: With Text, English Translation and Commentary c8.t3.16

c8.t3.16

After the area of the *mahāvedi* is thus marked out, the *sadas* tent is erected near the western base of the *mahāvedi*. The tent is rectangular in area, the longer side lying south-north symmetrically about the east-west line, and is provided with doors on the western and the eastern side. This tent is reserved for the priests to sit and conduct various operations:—"And because all the gods sat (*sad*) in it therefore it is called *sadas*—and so do these Brāhmaṇas of every family now sit therein."{a} Clearly the tent is divided by the *prācī* line into two parts. In the middle of it, a post of *udumbara* wood (*Fiscus glomerata*) is fixed to the ground.{b}