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Draw three circles and two diameters between the four cardinal 

 points, and place the twenty-eight neket in the four directions on the 

 sides of the lines. Calculate the threshing-floor circle towards the right 

 from the nekata on which the sun stands, starting from the East. 



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The- sixteen neket standing on the outer and second circular space 

 towards the four directions are profitless and bad : likewise the eight 

 on the third space : the middle four are fortunate. Reckon Southwards 

 from East to West finishing again at East. 



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Of the 16 portions of ground described by ancient sages* select those 



* The sixteen portions of land, as given in the Mdydmataya, are the 

 following: — Sinhakaraya, Sarakaraya, Brahmakaraya, Subhrakaraya, Gaja- 

 karaya, Gandharvakara3 r a, Chatrakaraya, Patrakaraya, Karasediakaraya, 

 Chaturtvakaraya, Rakshamukhakaraya, Trisulakaraya, Gangakaraya, Varaha"- 

 karaya, Kurmmakaraya, Nandakaraya. Jalatalakaraya. To these are some- 

 times added Karatalakaraya, A'yatanakaraya. In pdda-hedima, or dividing 

 into building lots, the subdivisions are: — Brahma-padaya, Dewa-paclaya, 

 Manussiya-padaya, Preta-padaya, of which the last is never selected as a site, 

 nor those portions of the others called technically deli and hatum. 



