The Hindu Temple v1.c5.s2.26

v1.c5.s2.26

The elaboration of the Vāstumaṇḍala, the square dial of all cyclical time, and its identification with the Vāstupuruṣa, according to his legend, appear almost completed at the age of the ‘Bṛhatsaṃhitā’ and the ‘Viṣṇudharmottara’. Only a few traces like the double list of the ‘Viṣṇudharmottara’, or the number 32 as that of the Nakṣatras given by Utpala, commenting on the ‘Bṛhat Saṃhitā’, remain of the various traditions which met in the Vāstu.