The Hindu Temple v1.c8.s5.6

v1.c8.s5.6

The various Vedic hearths were in the open or in sacrificial sheds.⁷⁰ One of these sheds, the Sadas, in which are seated (sad) the sacrificer, his wife and the priests, is set up on the Mahāvedi. It is covered on all sides with mats and faces the East where is its door."¹ That it is enclosed has a meaning akin in its context, though divergent in its purport from that of the houses, at the time when the trees withdrew from this earth (p. 116). "That Sadas they enclose on all sides with a view to that generation, thinking : Quite secretly shall be carried on that generation, for improper indeed, is the generation which another sees. Therefore to any one looking into the Sadas except through the door, let him say : 'Look not'; for it is as if he were seeing intercourse being carried on. Freely (one may look) through the door, for the door is made by the gods" (Ś.B. IV. 6. 7. 9). It is an act of generation which is performed in the enclosed hut, an initiation which leads to a second birth, in which the initiated is the embryo ('Maitrāyanīya Saṃhitā', III. 6. 7) and the hut is the womb ('Taittirīya Saṃhitā', VI. 2. 5. 5).