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Section on City Planning and Fortifications

In my subject the finger-play? is performed, or O son, in my subject...
Practice gentleness with a mind like Bhrigu A reference to the sage Bhrigu, often associated with the Vastu Shastra architectural traditions. Here a question arises: from that effort, not even a small portion of the field is easy?.
The machine yantra afterwards the knower? with those well-bowed, for the sake of the five elements... looking here at the circle of the sun. And the Mandara flower and the released time... the form? is spoken of as the thunderbolt-carrier Vajra, even in that duality it was considered delightful. || 6 ||

The elder water, the city of hot rays the Sun, and in human effort, the pride of a man is told here. This Mandala a geometric ritual grid used in design is the foundation of courage. In the part of the lotus, even the river should be held. The servants and the earth-born Mars, and the river of the moon Soma. || 5 ||

In a fortress, by a beautiful woman, a forest city, the destroyer of enemies, a city to be praised?. It is called Svastika a cross-shaped auspicious architectural plan. These twenty qualities of the protectors of jewels, giving happiness, giving the fruit of sacred sites, fame, and majesty. These qualities were created for the attraction of the world's inhabitants. Thus ends the explanation from the Puranas.

The collection of blue-black colors, the triangular city, many hands?, in the thunderbolt, the carriage...

original: Rukesha

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Before, by disease, in the world of mortals, it is said that for the sake of victory, the result is: by the lords of the directions, what is the fault? It brings destruction. And in the work of the poet, the state of Vishwakarma The divine architect of the gods. || 1 || Thus the seven defects.

I shall speak of the various types of cities, according to the sages, the middle and the best. Among them, the last is a thousand cubits, the middle is half of that. Others are even-numbered... with one remaining, the elephants... the wise man should arrange the weapons. || 8 ||

In the path, in the region, devoid of sweetness like speech, the four-tongued... the girl herself, the ten paths are censured. In detail: for the sake of the village and the city, the wise have spoken of the Vataka a circular or enclosed settlement pattern and the Vukata. || 8 ||

Thus purity?, the city of sixteen cubits, in the middle of which the sages say, with great effort toward growth. In length, a quarter and a half, more than the tip of the arm... and the work is said to be of two kinds white. || 10 ||

Twenty-six... the wise in the city of the gods... for the sake of the garden near the wall... with a well-collected form... || 11 ||
The cities are beautiful in the east, the gods are in the north...