The Hindu Temple v2.c13.s1.7

v2.c13.s1.7

Seven-eights of the height of the door is the height of the image. Two-thirds of it are assigned to the image proper and one-third to its pedestal. These proportions are identical to those of the ‘Bṛhat Saṃhitā’. The triple division of the total height of the temple had also been incorporated in Varāhamihira’s Norm. This does not imply that the V. Dh. precedes the ‘Bṛhat Saṃhitā’. Its standard norm however was known to Varāhamihira. It is clothed in the ‘Viṣṇudharmottara’ in a great variety of shapes (cf. ‘Bhaviṣya Purāṇa’, I. CXXX. 18).