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On House-building (vāstu-vidyā) - Verse 55-56

Brihat Samhita (Wisdomlib English) · 53 · Verse 55-56

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Sanskrit Original

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Or, divide the house ground into sixty-four equal squares; draw the main diagonal lines. The four central squares marked 23, 29, 36. 37, are occupied by Brahmā. The four squares occupying the inner corners, viz .. 19, 22, 46, and 43, as well as the four squares occupying the outer corners, viz ., 1, 8, 64 and 57, are divided each into two halves. The other squares all round Brahmā, viz ., 20, 21, 30, 38, 45, 44, 35 and 27, and the other outer squares, viz ., 2 to 7, 16 to 56, 63 to 58 and 49 to 9, are twenty-four. The number of all the squares thus mentioned is 44, and the remaining 20 squares, viz., those forming the four outermost lines but one, are known as Dvipadas.