The Hindu Temple v2.c11.s9.4

v2.c11.s9.4

On the fixed ground, the pillar is struck; it inheres the mass of the temple; like a lighthouse it has, as it were, turned around its axis and has thrown forth its radiance in the shape of images, visible and clear to all. The solid pile of the monument, with its buttresses and recesses and their sculptural exposition, is embodied movement, it revolves with the spirits of the air (Pls. XXV—XXVIII) in unbroken rhythmic form. In it Śakti is active, the power that drives forth the form, and is its substance. The Spirit gives His impress to it, and Yama, the Dharmarāja, gives it definition and finality in the succession of creative movement, at its own time and place.