Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c31.3

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The sublimest praise of this primordial type connected with the Primordial Creator Himself hints at the Brāhmanic conception of the Hindu Temple in unmistakable sense, a notice of which is taken in the Study Proper (vide Denotation and Connotation of the Prāsāda and Planning of the Prāsāda (chap. II and X). The text has bestowed upon this first type of the Hindu temple all the ornamentation and decorative elements of Hindu Architecture (S. S. 52. 79).