The Shulbasutras of Baudhayana, Apastamba, Katyayana and Manava: With Text, English Translation and Commentary c8.t9.26

c8.t9.26

**11.10-11.13.** *Placement of bricks in the second layer.* By placing B₉ bricks (*ubhayi*) at the eastern and the western end of the junction line between the wing and the body such that 12 *aṅg.* of the base lies in the body and 18 *aṅg.* in the wing, the *sūtrakāra* avoids the overlapping of edges of bricks in the two layers (Fig. 44). This is also the purpose of placing B₉s on each side of the head and B₂s at the end of the tail flanked at the western corners by B₅s and B₁₀s. For the complete arrangement of bricks, we again follow the commentator who this time divides the tail, the body and the head in 12 rows beginning with the 1st row at the western end of the tail and ending with the the 12th row at the head. In this division the wing with part of the junction lying in the body is separately treated as before.