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चतुर्दण्ड अपकृष्टं परिखायाः षड्दण्ड उच्छ्रितम् अवरुद्धं तद् द्विगुण विष्कम्भं खाताद् वप्रं कारयेद् ऊर्ध्व चयं मञ्च पृष्ठं कुम्भ कुक्षिकं वा हस्तिभिर् गोभिश् च क्षुण्णं कण्टकि गुल्म विष वल्ली प्रतानवन्तम् ॥

At a distance of four dandas (24 ft.) from the (innermost) ditch, a rampart six dandas high and twice as much broad shall be erected by heaping mud upwards and by making it square at the bottom, oval at the centre pressed by the trampling of elephants and bulls, and planted with thorny and poisonous plants in bushes. Gaps in the rampart shall be filled up with fresh earth.

english translation

Chapter 3

Verse 6