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¹ Figuratively this would, first, refer to the Spirit of the ground-plan (i.e. Vāstu-purusha), secondly to the forty-five deities who, as the occupants of the several plots into which a ground-plan is divided, are identical with the limbs of the Spirit, but ultimately and architecturally, to the ground plan itself.