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

Ch. V – Gṛhavinyāsaḥ lakṣaṇasamuccayaḥ 135 16. The temple should be built on the Īśa (North-East) and it will face either South or West. In the place of Parjanya the royal court should be built, which will face West, having its face on the back. 17. In the Jaya, the place for the clerical community, hall for practice, pavilion, water tanks, in the Śakra, the painting gallery and the room for teaching and in the Sūrya the place for disbursement on the courtyard of the palace should be built. 18. In the Satya, schools and the legal court will be built facing back to back. On the Bhṛśa, the storage room for business affairs and on the Vyoma the main kitchen will be placed. 19. On the Vahni - the room for cooked food and cowshed, on the Puṣṇī the meeting room, on the Vitatha - the room for preserving armour, spears and other weapons as well as the dining room will be constructed. 20. The painting room as well as the place for guards or sentinels should be built on the Gṛhakṣata. On the Yama, the watch tower for observation of the troops and the pleasure room for dancers on the Gandharva should be constructed. 21. In the Bhṛṅga there will be a road, and following it there will be a room for diseased persons (Dehacintāpada) outside Mṛga. There will be a bathing room and the place for playing dice in the Pitṛsthāna, and the place for water sports in Dvāstha (Dauvārika). 22. Otherwise this palace should be built as high as an elephant to watch the battlefield or behind this, one room for the rehearsal of the battle can be built. 23. The wrestling place will be on the Sugrīva and on Puṣpadanta there will be the parade place for military exercise. For the Varuṇa prince's house, in the Asura granary and dressing room for women should be placed. 24. Weapons and poison for emergency use of the seraglio in the Śoṣa, rooms for the keeper of the seraglio in the Roga, the stable for donkeys and camels in the Vāyu and the pond for Dhātrī and Sairandhrī in the Nāga should be erected.