The Hindu Temple v1.c5.s3.t2.9

v1.c5.s3.t2.9

There were no children of darkness prior to the raising of the standard when manifestation was not yet and the eight-wheeled effulgent chariot had not radiated the lustre which it was to carry through all time. When it began its journey, the children of darkness arose so that against them its lustre became apparent. They are its natural setting, complement and antagonists. Now the banner is radiant but is as yet without the ornaments of form and these the gods forthwith present. The square, first of all ornaments, is the perfect form, the perfection of order. Its identity is established by the pairs of opposites by which it is encompassed. By raising such a banner the host of the enemy is vanquished in disorder. It is as potent a weapon as Indra’s Vajra, the thunderbolt, which also is square (RV. IV. 22. 2).⁵¹ Elsewhere (‘Agnipurāṇa’, ch. CCCV. 14), while enumerating the abodes of the different divinities, it is said that in the quadrangle (catvara) Śiva is present.⁵²