The Hindu Temple v1.c6.s3.16

v1.c6.s3.16

Neither through the sacrifice nor as the play (līlā) of the Supreme Principle is the Vāstupuruṣa come into existence and laid down. Descent and dichotomy, fight, defeat and purpose in being defeated so as to sink to the bottom whence every building activity is to arise, is the function of the Vāstupuruṣa. For he came to earth in the Kṛta, the perfect age, when there were neither buildings nor temples, nor images; then the gods could be seen eye to eye, directly (pratyakṣa).²⁷