The Hindu Temple v2.c11.s1.13

v2.c11.s1.13

devatās, the main aspects of the divinity whose image or symbol is enshrined in the Garbhagṛha. Placed within the body of the wall, within a niche or "massive door" (ghanadvāra) as it is called, on the co-ordinates of the Prāsāda these main images are nearer to their centre which is also that of the entire monument, the temple. The surrounding images (āvaraṇa-devatās) are however more exposed; carved, as they sometimes are, almost completely in the round, they are yet of one piece of stone with the surfaces in ressault and remain connected with them by the strut-like extensions of their modelled limbs at angles not meant for view.