RULE id: kosthakas (1744) SOURCE: brihaddesi_sharma_1992 (vol_I_p036) SCOPE: technical_term family, Brihaddesi (Mātaṅga ~750 CE) CONCEPT: kosthakas STATUS: traditional ASSERTIONS: - [definition] Kosthakas are squares in the murchana-mandala filled with svaras -- p.vol_I_p036 "Forty-nine squares filled25 with svaras, have, indeed, to be made with eight (92) horizontal and vertical lines." CITED_RULES: - mūrchanā (definition) - svaras (definition) CONFIDENCE: traditional PROTECT: false