The Hindu Temple v2.c11.s1.76

v2.c11.s1.76

This last and highest standard is built up on the Navatāla, the purest in proportion (1; ⅓; 1; 1; 2; ⅓; 2; ⅓), by adding one aṅgula in each section; thigh and leg being as usual twice the height of the "heart", etc. One aṅgula, moreover, is added to complete the number 120. By these artifices the highest type of proportionate measurement is constructed befitting the highest hierarchy of divine images. It approximates most closely the "sectio aurea" in the classical statuary of the West; there the navel divides the total height of the figure—and of the perfect human body in this proportion.²⁹