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

254 वास्तुमण्डनम् Udvasa – Uninhabited empty, solitude, 8.88 Unnata – Height, 3.3; 8.52, 53, 74 Upadvāra – Secondary door, 4.56 Ūrdhvavellanī – Upper disc., 3.53, 55 Utkaraṭa – Anything dug out, a pilestack, 3.71 Utpala – a broad knife or lancet, a nail print, emaciated, 3.52 Utsaṅga – the roof of a house, vault, 4.63 Utsedha – Elevation, the height of a building is stated to be measured from the basement to the top of the dome, 4.30, 81, 84, 8.7 Uttara – North, 3.24, 28 V Vahni – Fire, Southeast, 3.25, 27 Vahniyantra – fire arms, 3.75 Vajrapaṭṭa – A club fillet, Vana – Forest, 3.84 Vāṭabhitta – enclosure wall, 4.26 Vāpī – Tank, stepped well, 3.24, 4.70, 110 Varāha – Boar, 7.15 Varaṇḍī – A rampart separating two combatant elephants. A divisio within the boarder or cubical portio of the temple, 4.82 Vāruṇya – West, 3.24 Vāstu – Site of a house, 3.3, 4.110 Vāstukṣetra – Area of a land, 4.18 Vasu (Aṣṭavasu) – Here it denotes number eight, 2.66; 3.10; 8.49, 53 Vasygasta – 8 hands, 3.47 Vāyu – Air, North west corner, 3.25, 5.5 Veda – It denotes No. 4 here, 3.11