This is a translation into English by Bonnie G. MacDougall and Christobelle Amarasingam of the Sri Lalitha Navaratnam Manaiadi Sastiram, a work on housebuilding in prose from the Tamil speaking area of South India. The original work was compiled in 1914 and is said to be based on the teachings of the great sage Maya. It belongs to a genre of works on housebuilding circulated in the modern languages of South Asia. Published in 1914.