The Hindu Temple v2.c11.s1.34

v2.c11.s1.34

Each such type of the ‘surrounding divinities’ is repeated in many variations of posture and movement on the walls of the temple; like the chorus in an Indian Yātrā performance announcing the particular passage of the play not once only, but by repetition in the four directions of space. Repetition and symmetrical response are the rule in the horizontal and also in the vertical; so that the mind of the devotee becomes moved afresh by the beauties of the Divine and its graces at each angle, assured of its boons and of fearlessness.¹⁰ There is no scope for narration in the juxtaposition of these figures. Each is the form of an enduring state of being in which it is absorbed while its gestures give it an actuality by which the mind of the devotee becomes arrested and is made to dwell on the particular state thus quickened.