The Hindu Temple v2.c11.s2.26

v2.c11.s2.26

⁴⁵ Mahākāla, for example, to the left of the door of a Śiva temple (I.P., l.c. verse 53); images of Time and Death are necessarily amongst the Guardians of the threshold, assisting the dying to the old life which is preliminary to the new regenerate state. “Every passage is a dangerous one, every gateway a death, but if safely passed through the gateway of a new life.” (Coomaraswamy, in a Review of C. Hentze, ‘Frühchinesische Bronzen und Kulturdarstellungen’, ‘The Art Bulletin’, 1940 (?) p. 53.