The Hindu Temple v1.c8.s6.28

v1.c8.s6.28

The Garbhagṛha is the nucleus of an all sided increase on the outside, in the horizontal, a stepping forth from the dark interior into expanding bulk and multiplicity of form and meaning. Its outward impact within its walls is traversed in the vertical direction by the urge of growth which corresponds to the sprouting of the seed, and leads from the broad earth and the base of the temple towards its high point even above the superstructure. A synonym for Śikhara, the curvilinear superstructure, is the term Mañjarī which means a shoot. This refers to the form of the superstructure as much as it follows logically by way of natural symbolism from the rite of Garbhādhāna. The vivifying Germ (garbha) and the Embryo of splendour (Hiranyagarbha) are within the walls of the Garbhagṛha and have their images in the construction of the temple.