Tag Hindu Temple

This is a later development as prescribed by The Agamas.

"The Hindu temple typically involves a multiple set of ideas.

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The temple is generally oriented to face East, the auspicious direction where the sun rises to dispel darkness...
The temple design includes the archetypal image of a Cosmic Person spread out yogi-like, symmetrically filling the gridded space of the floor plan, his

navel in the center, and it includes the archetype of the cosmic mountain, between earth and heaven, of fertility, planets, city of the gods, deities, etc.).

One encounters these simultaneous archetypal themes and meanings conveyed (and hidden) in the semi-abstract forms in many Hindu temples.

There are rules of shape and proportion in the authoritative texts of Hindu tradition, the Agamas.