The Hindu Temple v1.c5.s2.19

v1.c5.s2.19

The Vāstu had come to be the place of the adjustment of solar and lunar cycles. The number 32 of the divinities residing in the squares of the border of the Vāstumaṇḍala is also the sum of 4 and 28, the number of the regents of the four planets who rule over the equinoxial and solstitial points referred to the cardinal points, and of the regents of the 28 Nakṣatras. Their location in the Vāstumaṇḍala shows a reconciliation of the motions of the Sun and the Moon, and they have their nature in their number which is 32; the single divinities who make up this sum act each as a ‘locum tenens’. In Vāstuśāstra they are nearly unanimously identified with the divinities whose names are shown in the border of the Figure below, following the ‘Bṛhatsaṃhitā, LII. 43 f.