The Hindu Temple v1.c9.s5.13

v1.c9.s5.13

The plans, p. 247 f, of the Prāsādas Kṣitibhūṣaṇa, Vijayabhadra and Hemakūṭa are drawn according to the ‘Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra’.⁷ They belong to fully evolved structures, the one relatively simple in plan the others more elaborate, in which the original principles are worked out in their implications. These three varieties of temples have each an ambulatory outside the wall of the Garbhagṛha; it is enclosed by the outer wall of the temple.⁸ The name of the walled-in ambulatory is Andhakārikā, being a blind (andha),⁹ in the sense of dark, ambulatory; the inner wall is called ‘the wall’ (bhitti) or inner wall (antarabhitti), or root-wall (kandabhitti); while the outer wall has only one name, (bāhya-bhitti), which means outer wall and shows that the inner wall is the original wall, by which the Garbhagṛha is surrounded. This augmented plan is also organised in three respects: (1) along the orthogonals corresponding to the Pramāṇasūtra : (2) along the outside of each of the two sets of walls or the Paryantasūtra and (3) along the Vinyāsasūtras and their extensions by which the projections and the vertical recesses of the wall are proportionately measured in their thickness or depth.