The Hindu Temple v2.c11.s8.22

v2.c11.s8.22

The Āmalaka effects and symbolizes the passage to heaven; it is the architectural symbol of the celestial world; viewed as sculpture, it is a three dimensional shape of the filaments of the lotus or of a halo with its rays.¹⁷³ The disc of the sun looks like the pericarp of the sky-lotus of which the petals are the directions of the compass and the filaments the solar rays.¹⁷⁴ The rays of the sun, in another inscription¹⁷⁵ are seen as "the round wooden rings of the sacrificial posts (yūpa)".