Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 12
शुचौ देशे समे पुण्ये पूर्वोत्तरप्लवे शुभे । मंडपं कारयेद्विद्वान्रम्यं ष़ोशहस्तकम् । तन्मध्ये कारयेद्वेदिं चतुर्हस्त प्रमाणतः । यजमानस्य हस्तेन हस्तैकेन समुच्छ्रिताम्
śucau deśe same puṇye pūrvottaraplave śubhe | maṃḍapaṃ kārayedvidvānramyaṃ ṣa़ोśahastakam | tanmadhye kārayedvediṃ caturhasta pramāṇataḥ | yajamānasya hastena hastaikena samucchritām
Di tempat yang suci, rata dan penuh pahala—di tanah bertuah yang condong ke timur atau ke utara—orang berilmu hendaklah mendirikan sebuah maṇḍapa yang indah, berukuran enam belas hasta. Di tengahnya hendaklah dibuat sebuah vedī (pelantar altar) empat hasta, ditinggikan satu hasta menurut ukuran tangan yajamāna (tuan yajña).
Bhartṛyajña
Type: kshetra
Scene: A freshly built sixteen-cubit pavilion on a clean, level sacred ground sloping east/north; in the center a four-cubit altar-platform raised one cubit; priests measuring with rods and the yajamāna’s hand-span standard.
FAQs
Dharma is enacted through order and purity: sacred giving is supported by a carefully prepared, auspicious ritual space.
The instructions are given for performance at a tīrtha; the chapter’s larger narrative supplies the particular tīrtha being praised.
Construct a 16-hasta maṇḍapa on pure, level ground with east/north slope, and build a central 4-hasta vedi raised by one hasta.