The Hindu Temple v2.c11.s2.21

v2.c11.s2.21

Upwards and downwards are the images arrayed at the entrance when its broad frame is seen as a surface of display. ‘Historically’ too, the river goddesses have descended from the high positions on either side of the lintel to their stations on either side of the threshold; from there now the creepers ramble upwards, to the lintel. Beheld however in the dynamic impact of its carved Śākhās, the Rivers and the host of gods seem to have thronged out from the Garbhagṛha : in this dark ‘cave’ they have their source.