The Hindu Temple v1.c5.s6.1
The Hindu Temple v1.c5.s6.1
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v1.c5.s6.1
The square of 64 or 81 divisions is occupied by the Vāstupuruṣa. It is his very shape (svarūpa). The square of 81 compartments as explained in the ‘Vāstuvidhāna’ (X. 1-6) is occupied by a picture of the Vāstupuruṣa. His subtle body with its parts, limbs and apertures is interpreted as co-terminous and thus one with the 81 squares of the plan. The coincidence (ib. VIII. 26, 31) of the diagram (yantra = maṇḍala) and of the ‘body’ (śarīra) of the Vāstupuruṣa as one form (rūpa) is more suggestively laid out in the Paramaśāyika than in the Maṇḍūka plan.
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