The Hindu Temple v1.c5.s8.4

v1.c5.s8.4

The first plan, called Sakala (commensurable) consists of one square (pada) only. It is ordained for hermits (yati) as seat (vistāra) of the priest for making a great, devouring fire for sacrifices to the Fathers, to the immortals, and so on, and for worship of the Guru; Sūrya, Yama, Varuṇa and Soma are stationed in the East, South, West and North along the cord (which delimits the plot; ‘Mayamata’, VII. 22). This first type of planned, commensurable plot does not seem to have been destined as site of a temple.⁹⁷ It was an enclosure round the sacrificial fire.