The Hindu Temple v1.c8.s4.1

v1.c8.s4.1

The ground plan of the Garbhagṛha is, as a rule, square, in conformity with the plan, the Vāstumaṇḍala and its division into squares.⁵² The Vedic altar does not account for the square chamber within the Prāsāda. Its walls are as broad as they are long and in principle also as high as they are broad (see Chart, Part VII). A cube forms the sanctuary of certain temples of the Gupta Age; they are located mainly in Central India.⁵³ Their roof is flat, it does not carry a superstructure. Other types of low roofed temples too, of about the same age though different in plan are well known from Western India;⁵⁴ besides, flat roofed temples of the early