Essay name: Samrajya Lakshmi Pithika (Study)
Author:
Artatrana Sarangi
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages
This is a study in English of the Samrajya Lakshmi Pithika (written by Lolla Lakshmidhara) representing an encyclopedic manual for emperors. The Samrajyalaksmipithika encompasses about 3870 verses in addressing topics such as public festivals, governance, warfare (military strategy), and rituals associated with the Tantric worship for the deity Samrajya-Lakshmi.
Chapter 2 - Rituals connected with Samrajya-lakshmi
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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)
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brahma announces the place and time while facing the east,
performs control of vital airs and takes a sincere resolve
to perform the Vastupuja
continued prosperity of the state (17.1-5).
as desired by the king for
Vastucakra :
On the altar is now spread white rice in the shape
of a platform as high as a vitasti (roughly equals to
nine inches) and as long as one cubit on which is drawn
the diagram of Vastu (vastucakra). To prepare a vastucakra
first, are drawn ten parallel and straight lines moving
These are intersected by another group of ten
eastwards.
lines which tend to move northwards. All these, when
drawn, are reduced to same length on all sides. Thus one
gets a figure with eightyone padas (squares). Now
these are reduced to fortyfive squares, known as (kosthas)
in the following manner. The square at the centre now
comprises of nine earlier squares. This is surrounded by
squares of three padas each on all four directions, viz.
east, west, north and south. To the four corners viz.
north-east, south-east, north-west and bouth-west are left
18 18.
One pada stands for one basic unit of the
division of eighty one squares.
