The glorious lord said: The first thread from the east and the first thread from the south shall be coloured. Altogether there shall be two thousand four hundred threads. With these as boundaries a square shall be made. Outside, all round, a marginal pathway a foot in width shall be made. The subsidiary threads shall be separately taken. For each line thirty-six threads shall be twisted together. There shall be thirty-six squares formed by seven rows running east to west and seven rows running from south to north. Therefore, there shall be forty-nine rows (i.e. boundary lines for the squares?). He shall clean nine rows in the middle with water mixed with cow-dung.