the vastu purusha mandala

At the foundation of a village or building a house,

a temple, the priest-architects drew this diagram checkered

on the ground after purified it.

The vastu purusha mandala is the symbolic representation of the cosmos.

The center of the square is occupied by the one God (Vishnu, Shiva or Brahma).

it is the holy of holies, the sacred sanctuary, a place of divinity.

Its use will be diverted to form a table of war game

8 x 8 squares, ancestor of the Exchequer ...

"The "mandala" is the form and the being ordered or the sensible world is in the "Vastu Purusha

Mandala" whose geometric and magic diagram would be explained in the Vedic ritual of sacrifice. From

site selection to design of the structure of the city, all within the rules of architecture diagram. All this is

reflected in the magic square that is the image of the earth after square the circle, but is also the body of

Purusha, the primordial man : man and the earth are matched.

Time is built into the mandala through the zodiac and the place by the orientation of the square in the

four or eight directions of space. "

in http://www.archives-lyon.fr/old/fonds/plan-g/07.htm

Read the rite of the founding of the city in french :http://www.geocities.com/symbolos_fg/vjmgrac.htm

At the foundation of a village or building a house,

a temple, the priest-architects drew this diagram checkered

on the ground after purified it.

The vastu purusha mandala is the symbolic representation of the cosmos.

The center of the square is occupied by the one God (Vishnu, Shiva or Brahma).

it is the holy of holies, the sacred sanctuary, a place of divinity.

Its use will be diverted to form a table of war game

8 x 8 squares, ancestor of the Exchequer ...

"The "mandala" is the form and the being ordered or the sensible world is in the "Vastu Purusha

Mandala" whose geometric and magic diagram would be explained in the Vedic ritual of sacrifice. From

site selection to design of the structure of the city, all within the rules of architecture diagram. All this is

reflected in the magic square that is the image of the earth after square the circle, but is also the body of

Purusha, the primordial man : man and the earth are matched.

Time is built into the mandala through the zodiac and the place by the orientation of the square in the

four or eight directions of space. "