The Hindu Temple v1.c8.s3.5
The Hindu Temple v1.c8.s3.5
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⁴⁴ The small space within the cube of its walls, the Garbhagṛha, is the most elementary of the ancient and preserved types of temple, in India. It was used by Hindus and Buddhists in the Gupta Age, as far as monuments exist to-day, and by aboriginals, at any phase of their megalithic or generally pre-historic, non-historic, undated mode of worship. The socle is known as Adhiṣṭhāna in South Indian texts, 'Tantrasamuccaya', I, II, 37; 'Kāśyapaśilpa', X, 1, and as Pīṭha, in the 'Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra', LXI. South Indian texts use also the following synonyms: Masūraka, Ādyaṅga, Kuṭṭima, Vastvādhāra (I.P. III, Ch. XXX. 66).
Linked texts (4)
- Kāśyapaśilpa — Sanskrit
- Īśānaśivagurudevapaddhati — Īśānaśivagurudeva, Sanskrit
- Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra — Bhoja, Sanskrit
- Tantrasamuccaya — Chennasu Nārāyaṇa, Sanskrit