The Shulbasutras of Baudhayana, Apastamba, Katyayana and Manava: With Text, English Translation and Commentary c8.t31.16

c8.t31.16

The *Mānava-śulbasūtra*, in 16 chapters, is a mere compilation, and its value as a technical text appears to be of dubious nature. In most places it is corrupt, and the same topics are discussed in different places. The materials on *gārhapatya*, for instance are dispersed in chapters 1, 6, 9, 13, on *caturaśraśyenacit* in chapters 4, 5, 6 and 13, on *dhiṣṇyas* in chapters 6, 9 and 13 etc. It is full of paraphernalia about worship hardly of any consequence to altar construction. The arrangement is unsystematic. The text therefore bears no comparison with the three other *śulba* texts already commented upon.