Meenakshi Temple, Madurai
Meenakshi temple also known as Arulmigu Meenakshi Sundareshwarar Temple is a historic Hindu temple located on the southern bank of the Vaigai River in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. It is dedicated…
Temple Architecture
The Axis and the Perimeter of the Temple – Part 3
The Axis and the Perimeter The Agniksetra or the later temple plan of the Vedic ritual represents two significant numbers, 180 and 54, which, when doubled, correspond to astronomical knowledge related to…
The Axis and the Perimeter of the Temple – Part 2
The Altar as a Representation of the Cosmos The Śatapatha Br. informs us that the altar is to represent the mystery of time. Its dimensions are to represent earth. “As large…
The Axis and the Perimeter of the Temple – Part 1
Canonical texts describing the plan of the Hindu temple allude to its astronomical basis, and in this Bharatiya sacred geometry is not different in conception from the sacred geometry of…