The Hindu Temple v1.c8.s4.31

v1.c8.s4.31

Form and function of the Prāsāda do not owe anything to the rites for the dead or else in a transferred sense and to that extent only in which the sowing of the seeds, or the rites of initiation signify and are based on the knowledge of death, of dying to a former, lesser state and the undergoing a new or second birth to a regenerate life, on a higher level. Temples of Śiva or Durgā are set up on cremation grounds ('Kathāsaritsāgara') because in these terrific aspects death is shown as overcome and merged in the deathless.