Note 4 — PREFACE. (continued 5)
Reading edition
Two important divisions were omitted in the original, viz.: that of medical practice for bodily ailments, and temple architects for the weighty matters of the mind, in the locating and designing of heiaus to insure the favor of the gods on the aims and ambitions of the king. On a selection of the proper site by the kuhikuhi puuone for the erection of the structure desired by the king, whether for questions of war or other serious subject, he would trace out its form and plan upon a surface of sand, hence the name puuone, sand heap. ↑