The Hindu Temple v2.c12.3

v2.c12.3

The throng of the people and their leisure fills the space between the shrines in worship—or in ruins. There, under the trees, and near the water, their clothes have been washed and spread to dry; the various daily actions performed outside the temples are as much part of the life at the Tīrtha as are the rites of ‘drying up’ (śoṣaṇa) the impurities of the subtle body and purifying the bodily elements (bhūtaśuddhi) of the Sādhaka who has entered the temple.