HINDU COSMOS
Elucidation of the ancient history of the area covers state
organization, town location, industry, the life of the people, religious
architecture and the view of the world that the people of those times had. In
those days people thought of the whole world, on , below and above the earth ,
as an orderly hierarchy. That is why the built their temples and towns along
the same lines as this hierarchical pattern.
According to the Indian Shastra treatise n architecture and
town planning, the basic shape of the plans of temples and towns is the square,
divided into smaller squares each of the same size and the same number
vertically and across containing the constituent elements. Furthermore, since
temples often were a three dimensional representation of the 3 worlds- the
world below the earth, the world on the earth and the worth above the earth- we
can find them expressed in the architectural profile of each. To the modern
eye, the rich expression of detail in such temple architecture may look like
mere decoration, but to the people of those times it was more a visual
expression of the constituent elements of the world.
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