The Hindu Temple v2.c11.s1.23

v2.c11.s1.23

The dynamic expansiveness of the mass of the Prāsāda has its correspondence in the plan of the building in the shape of a cross with recessed angles or having an outline which results from a rotation of the square. The static perfection of the small square of the dark Garbhagṛha with its plain walls is translated into the body of the temple, the ‘body of God’, a likeness of the manifested universe and its primordial substance, Prakṛti. It has its effect by giving the fullest exposition of its meaning and forms to the devotee in the rite of circumambulation in which he himself becomes the outermost perimeter and limit of the monument in the centre.