The Hindu Temple v1.c5.s2.24

v1.c5.s2.24

³⁰ But for this and the corresponding changes in the intermediate directions, where Agni occupies the South-East in the place of Anila; and Anila who is Māruta who is Vāyu, the Wind, is placed in the North-Western corner, there are no major differences in the positions of the Devatās in the Vāstu of all the schools and at all times. Roga (disease) in the later Vāstu-śāstra is ousted from his position and disappears from the Vāstu, while Pāpayakṣman and Soṣa remain in the retinue of Varuṇa; their evil presence suffices. In the inner border Rājayakṣman (consumption) is replaced by Rudrajaya, and Nirṛti occupies the South-West corner. The other divinities remain the same under identical or else alternate names or synonyms (Bhujaga, for instance, in the ‘Bṛhat Saṃhitā’, is Kuvera in the ‘Viṣṇudharmottara’ and the other texts; Agni is Śikhin, Śikhā or Anala, in the Br. S. LII. 43 and Comm.). [*] When Aryaman, east of the Brahmasthāna is replaced by Marīci, as in the ‘Īśānaśivagurudevapaddhati’, III. ch. XXVII. 4-7, his name appears in the South outside the Vāstu. The entities stationed outside the Vāstu, who occupy positions but of no definite extent, are also mentioned in the early texts (‘Bṛhat Saṃhitā’, LII. 82, etc.). They figure in the ‘Īśānaśivagurudevapaddhati’, ‘Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra’, etc. (see Part III) and their names are added on p. 32 to the Vāstumaṇḍala of the ‘Bṛhat Saṃhitā’, for the sake of completeness. The Devatās and their identifications are given in the ‘Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra’ (see Part III, where also drawings are given of the most frequent versions of the two main types of the Vāstupuruṣamaṇḍala of temples).