कामिक आगम: पूर्व भाग (अष्टाविंशति मूल शैव आगमों का प्रथम एवं सर्वोच्च आगम महाकोश)

atha vr'tta pada nya'sam pravaks"ya'mi yatha' vidhi /
cakravt pan"ca su'tra'n.i sa'ntara'n.i sama'ni ca // 115
dva'trims'acca caturvims'ad dviras"t'a's"t'aika bhaginah /
eka's'i'ti padam hyetatj jn"eyam vis"ama samsthitih // 116
Now I will speak on the designing of circular man.da'ala and assigning of the grids
according to the well-settled rules. Five circular lines are to be drawn in such a way
that they appear equally spaced . There will be five concentric cicles in this design.
The outer circular belt will be with 32 grids. The adjacent inner belt will bewith24
grids. The next inner one will be with 16 grids. The belt which is adjacent to this
will be with 8 grids. The innermost circle is one grid. In this way this man.d'ala
consists of 81 grids and this is to be known as the man.d'ala of odd-count.
अष्टाविंशत्तथा विंशद् द्वादशाष्टार्धभागतः ।
चतुष्षष्टिपदं चैतच्चतुर्वृत्ते प्रकल्पयेत् ।। ११७
कुम्भकस्य तु विन्यासं सम्मिश्रं उभयोर्न्यसेत् ।
चतुष्षष्टिपदं वास्तु परमैशान्तु वास्तुकम् ।। ११८
as"t'a'vims'at tatha' vims'atd dva'das'a's"t'a'rdha bha'ginah /
catus"s"as"t'i padam caitac caturvr'tte prakalpayet // 117
kumbhakasya tu vinya'sam sammis'ram ubhayor nyaset /
catus"s"as"t'ipadam va'stu paramais'antu va'stukam // 118
In the man.d'u'ka pada of circular type, the outer strip consists of 28 grids. The
strip adjacent to it consists of 20 grids. The next inner strip consists of 12 grids.
And the innermost circle consists of 4 grids. Its center is the nis"kala bindu. In
this way all the 64 grids are to be formed within the four concentric circles. In
both the paramas'a'yika and the man.d'u'ka, allocation of the grids to the
concerned deities is to be done by joining and partitioning of certain grids.
Here in this Agama, the man.d'u'ka of 64 grids is considered as va'stu and the
paramas'a'yika of 81 grids is considered as va'stuka.