Temple Architecture

Temple of Kukulcan ( El Castillo).image
Hinduism

Chichén Itzá Chidambaram Nataraja Sanctum Identical

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The term Maya itself may be from the word Maya, who is the sculptor illusionist of the Asuras( auras means one who is powerful-please read my post on this).

He is the one who built the House of wax in the Mahabharata to entrap the Pandavas and he also built the Palace in Indraprastha,now called Delhi.

( Duryodhana, mistaking the Floor to be water, so well was the floor designed, fell to the ground, Draupadi laughed and Duryodhana vowed to get even with her for insulting him).

The Maya word K’ultanlini refers to the divine power and has obvious similarities to the Sanskrit word Kundalini which also refers to the life power and the power of consciousness.

Hinduism

Universe In Temple Designs Hindusim Angkor Vat

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The principles in the making of the universe are within us and the Hindu temples keep this point in constructing them.

The Hindu Temples are built according to Vedic Principles of Cosmology and the physical structural guidelines are from the Vaasu Sasta and Agamas.

One would temples, including cave temple of Gavi Gangadhara temple in Bangalore, have the Sun’s Rays falling on the God’s idol on specific days.

Vishnu’s Mathsya temple also has these feature.

There are temples where the shadow of the idol falls at a specific pre marked space.

There are quite a few temples and please check my posts under Hinduism.

We have the Sun temple at Konark where one can find Astronomy being used in the construction of temple.

We have the city of Jaipur built based on Vedic principles,

Hinduism

Temple Buliding 11 Steps 13 Procedures

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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.

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