The Hindu Temple v1.c5.s6.4

v1.c5.s6.4

The tabular representation (prastara-mārga) in 81 squares accommodates the 32 divinities of the border (p. 32) in entire compartments and avoids the halves of squares in which some of these, and also of the other gods, have to be confined in order to find room in the Maṇḍūka maṇḍala. The fractionless allocation of the Vedic gods on the ‘body’ of the Vāstupuruṣa is effected in the square of 81 compartments. The ‘descent’ of the Vāstupuruṣa to earth, and the settlement of the gods on this Puruṣa, one with him on earth, is represented in the square of 81 parts.⁸¹