The Hindu Temple v1.c9.s3.5
The Hindu Temple v1.c9.s3.5
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Slabs in receding tiers are placed on the flat roof of the temples of village gods in the Tamil country and on Śiva shrines in the Himālayas. They help to hold the supernatural presence on the spot and correspond in this respect to the Sannirodhinī mudrā, the ritual hand gesture by which the presence of divinity is restrained and held at the place of worship, in the image in which it has its seat at that time. The slabs produced the trunk of a pyramid, stepped and gradually contracting into one steep ascent.⁷⁹