The layout, the motifs, the plan and the building process recite ancient rituals, geometric symbolisms, and reflect beliefs and values innate within various schools of Hinduism. The spiritual principles symbolically represented in Hindu temples are given in the ancient Sanskrit texts of India (for example, the Vedas and Upanishads), while their structural rules are described in various ancient Sanskrit treatises on architecture ( Bṛhat Saṃhitā, Vāstu Śāstras). A temple incorporates all elements of the Hindu cosmos - presenting the good, the evil and the human, as well as the elements of the Hindu sense of cyclic time and the essence of life - symbolically presenting dharma, artha, kama, moksha, and karma. It also represents recursion and the representation of the equivalence of the macrocosm and the microcosm by astronomical numbers, and by 'specific alignments related to the geography of the place and the presumed linkages of the deity and the patron'. The symbolism and structure of a Hindu temple are rooted in Vedic traditions, deploying circles and squares. It is a structure designed to bring human beings and gods together through worship, sacrifice, and devotion. A Hindu temple, or Devasthana or mandir or koil or kovil in Indian languages, is a house, seat and body of divinity for Hindus.

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