The Hindu Temple v1.c9.s5.7

v1.c9.s5.7

Four kinds of proportionate measurement of the Prāsāda are given in the ‘Matsya Purāṇa’. In the first, the plan is divided into sixteen squares; the height of the wall is equal to its outer length; the body of the Prāsāda is a cube; its high superstructure is twice as high as the width (w) of the Prāsāda (also ‘Garuda-purāṇa’, I, XLVII). If the width of a square is 1 unit, the width of the Garbhagṛha measures 2 such units, the width of the Prāsāda is 4; its height is 4 and that of its superstructure, the Śikhara, is 8.