The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c11.42

c11.42

Crowning all is the vast lotus with a thousand shining turned-down petals, which contains the germs of thousand thousands of worlds yet unborn. It is the abode of para-brahmâ, and there is the formless and motionless one, mahâ-kâlî. “As the lightning is born from the cloud, and disappears within the cloud, so Brahmâ and all the gods take birth from kâlî, and will disappear in kâlî who is the giver of nirvana.”