वास्तु मण्डन (मण्डन सूत्रधार - गृह, राजप्रासाद, दुर्ग एवं नगर-वास्तु सटीक)

Ch. V – Gṛhavinyāsaḥ lakṣaṇasamuccayaḥ 137 25. The chamber of the girls in the Mukhya and the white medicinal herbs in the Bhallāṭa should be kept. In the Soma, the room for shampooing and in the Śaila toilets and confinement room for women are to be built. 26. In the Aditi there will be bathing place for children and in the Diti there will be place for massage and hot water. In the East there will be the drawing room, place for meeting and on both the sides there will be room for wrestling. 27. For a King’s house the best type of door is to be erected, espe- cially in the direction of Śakra. Three or five storied buildings are to be built either in Mukhya or Gṛhakṣata. 28. On the Puṣpadanta or Bhallāṭa, the door should be erected on the lower storey. According to the desire of the King the door and the edifices are not to be erected. 29. Residential places of women, bedrooms, walls, are to be con- structed. Stable for horses is to be erected on the left side and it is auspicious if placed in double intermediate space (Dviguṇāntara). 30. These will be of three types, 100, 80 or 60 hands in length. The width will serially be 15, 13, 11 and may end in 9 hands. 31. The horses will stay facing towards the south or north and that place will be raised by two hands. The hall for elephants will be placed on the southern part and it is auspicious if placed at four times distance. 32. The hall will be 7, 8 or 9 hands high and the pillars of the hall will have coating on them. The row of elephants will face either the East or South. Thus ends the 5th chapter of Vāstumaṇḍana in Vāstuśāstra comprising the arrangement of the house written by Śrī Sūtradhāra Maṇḍana.