The Hindu Temple v1.c8.s2.38

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great height in one form or another, towards its culminating point, in the earlier of the preserved shrines the roof is also flat. A raised plinth or terrace is a substructure of the body of the temple and frequently accommodates a path of circumambulation. In this its simplest and indispensable form, the Garbhagṛha is embedded in thick walls; if it has as is the rule, a high superstructure, it carries upward the architectural theme of the walls from which it arises. Their ever more complex articulation serves as ever more explicit exposition of the meaning of the temple in many figures, each with its name and place in the body of the building.