The Hindu Temple v1.c6.11

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³ Vairāja Puruṣa or Pradhāna Puruṣa is the non-conditioned, Supreme Principle in its contingent aspect, in the macrocosm and microcosm; Vāstu-Brahmā stands here in analogical relation to Virāj as Virāj to Puruṣa. In the ‘Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra’, II. 4, Viśvakarmā says, “Brahmā created first Vāstubrahmā and then all the worlds.” The principle which regulates extension is prior to extension. The world is laid out in conformity with the principle. This is shown in the ritual diagram of architecture and in the building of the temple, which is a likeness, on a proportionate scale, of the world and leads beyond it.