The Hindu Temple v1.c6.s2.4

v1.c6.s2.4

Such constructions have wide currency in Indian thought where they signify the universal law as a working entity. For the sake of identification and reference, the whole of it and its parts are placed and named according to the parts and limbs of the human body. Puruṣa in these 'images' is a term of reference. It affords a means of location of the several parts within the whole; and an identification by transfer of one's own bodily frame into the special design as well as an introduction of that image into the corresponding disposition of one's own body. The body here means nothing but a place of co-ordinated activity, each part being the seat of a special function.