The Hindu Temple v2.c11.s2.22

v2.c11.s2.22

Having come forth from the darkness, young and dazzling in their vigour, the river-goddesses conduct from the level of the threshold not only the glance of regenerate man. They foster and nourish not only him in his new born state but they strengthen also the seed and embryo (garbha) of the temple which had been deposited to the right of the door—below the door-jamb—and prior to its having been set up (Part IV, p. 126). Thus their presence, position and movement draw upward and reinforce the subtle parts of all the elements which constitute the Seed⁴³ of the ‘body’ of the Puruṣa, which is the structure of the temple.