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According to the Mayamata, there are four types of soil in the earth: 

1. salty (奴峁�a谤补), 
2. off-white (辫腻峁囜笉耻谤补), 
3. black and uniform (办峁涐梗峁嘺-肠颈办办补峁嘺), and 
4. red-swollen (迟腻尘谤补-pullaka). 

Regarding on 莫艣腻苍补艣颈惫补驳耻谤耻辫补诲诲丑补迟颈 also records the same information. 

It is stated that:

肠颈办办补峁嚹� 辫腻峁囜笉补谤腻办丑测腻 ca 蝉补濒辞峁嚹� ca vigarhit膩 |
caturth墨 迟腻尘谤补phull膩 tu karmayog膩 m峁沝i峁�yate || (莫艣腻苍补艣颈惫补驳耻谤耻辫补诲诲丑补迟颈, 办谤颈测腻. 33.36)

摆鈥�肠颈办办补峁嚹� (smooth), 辫腻峁囜笉补谤腻办丑测腻 (off-white), and 蝉补濒辞峁嚹� (salty) soils are considered unsuitable for the construction. The fourth type, 迟腻尘谤补phull膩 (red-swollen), is deemed appropriate for work."]^[1]

Maya recommends using red-swollen soil for making bricks (颈峁ａ弓补办腻). Soil of this category should be devoid of gravel, pebbles, roots, and bones. It should be blended with white sand until the mixture achieves a smooth and pleasant texture to touch.

Firstly, the clay soil should be placed in a pit filled with water. After some time, once the soil is fully soaked, it should be continuously crushed by foot. Then, this mixture should be soaked in the extracts of 办峁Ｄ玶补, kadamba, amra, abhaya, 补办峁�a, and mixed with water from 迟谤颈辫丑补濒腻 (amla, haritak墨, and bahera). Afterward, the mixture should be crushed thirty times.

The width of the bricks should be measured in units of four, five, six, or eight digits, and the length should be twice of the width. The thickness of the bricks should be half, one-fourth, or one-third of their width. Bricks (颈峁ａ弓补办腻) can be dried in sunlight or fired in a kiln. After a few months, the sthapati wets these bricks with water. They should be dried again before being used in building construction. It should be noted that the same method is followed even today.

惭腻苍补蝉腻谤补 (chap 257), 叠峁沨补迟蝉补峁僪颈迟腻 (chap 57), 痴颈艣惫补办补谤尘腻-辫谤补办腻艣补, 痴颈峁ａ箛耻诲丑补谤尘辞迟迟补谤补-辫耻谤腻峁嘺 (chap 92) etc. also illustrate the choice of materials for building construction. In the texts 叠峁沨补迟蝉补峁僪颈迟腻 and 痴颈峁ａ箛耻诲丑补谤尘辞迟迟补谤补-辫耻谤腻峁嘺 the concept of vajralepana (similar to cement) is discussed. The vajralepana can be made following two different methods. Here, the first method is to be discusses depending on 痴颈峁ａ箛耻诲丑补谤尘辞迟迟补谤补-辫耻谤腻峁嘺. 

It is stated that鈥�

ata岣� para峁� pravak峁�y膩mi vajralepavidhi峁� tava |
bilavak膩峁兣沜a kapitth膩峁兣沜a 膩mr膩n sa峁僪峁泃ya yatnata岣� ||
艣膩lmal墨n膩峁� tath膩 辫耻峁�p补峁� sallak墨b墨jameba ca |
dhanvana艣ca(dhanu艣c膩pi) tath膩 办补濒办补峁� 惫补肠腻峁� ca manuje艣vara || ..... (痴颈峁ａ箛耻诲丑补谤尘辞迟迟补谤补-辫耻谤腻峁嘺, 92.1-2)

[ 鈥�Bilvaka, Kapittha, 膧尘谤补 as well as the flower of 艢腻濒尘补濒墨, the seed of 厂补濒濒补办墨, the skin of Dhanvana and Vaca should be taken in equal parts and mixed up in water eight times in quantity. The whole mixture should be boiled till it reduces to one-eight. Then the following things should be put into it; the 痴颈苍测腻蝉补 of 厂补濒濒补办墨, the Guggula of Bakula, 叠丑补濒濒腻迟补办补, Bilva, Kunduru, Sarja and 础迟补蝉墨. When it (this mixture) is heated properly, it is called Vajralepa.鈥漖^[2]

Second method to process the Vajralepana is to be discussed here depending on 叠峁沨补迟蝉补峁僪颈迟腻. The text mentions that:

濒腻办峁Ｄ乲耻苍诲耻谤耻驳耻驳驳耻濒耻驳峁沨补诲丑奴尘补办补辫颈迟迟丑补惫颈濒惫补尘补诲丑测腻苍颈 |
苍腻驳补惫补濒腻辫丑补濒补迟颈苍诲耻办补尘补诲补苍补辫丑补濒补尘补诲丑耻办补尘补帽箩颈峁ａ弓腻岣� ||
sarjjarasaras膩mak膩ni ceti 办补濒办补岣� k峁泃o dvit墨yo鈥檡a峁� |

(叠峁沨补迟蝉补峁僪颈迟腻 57.5-6)

摆鈥淭here is a second glue of excellent qualities made of the sediments, as explained before, of lac, Kunduru, Guggulu, jouse smoke, wood-apple, Bilwakernel, fruits of Naga, Neem, Tinduka and Madana, madder, Sarjarasa, Raktabola and Amalaka.鈥漖^[3]

Footnotes and references:

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[1]:

Translated by the researcher.

[2]:

Priyabala Shah, 痴颈峁ａ箛耻诲丑补谤尘辞迟迟补谤补-辫耻谤腻峁嘺, vol. 2, p.196.

[3]:

V. Subrahmanya Sastri & M. Radhakrishna Bhat, 叠峁沨补迟蝉补峁僪颈迟腻, p.502