The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s6.26

c13.s6.26

The *maṇḍala* type of architecture is represented by the largest temple at Toling. The form might have been borrowed from the temple at Somapura near Pāhārpur in North Bengal. It is the Vajradhātumaṇḍala of the Tāntric cycle that is reproduced in this temple. Vairochana is in the centre, Akṣobhya is placed in the east, Ratnasambhava in the south, and then come Amitābha and Amoghasiddhi. The entire Mahāyānic pantheon is visible here, especially the one connected with the Sarvavid, Vairochana, Guhyasamāja and Samvaratantra.