The central square of a temple's site-plan grid, regarded as the seat of the formless absolute, over which the garbhagriha stands and through which the brahmasutra runs.

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• Anatomy of a Hindu Temple: Gopuram to Garbhagriha Temples →

  The image stands over the brahma-sthana , the central square of the grid, the point the texts call the seat of the formless.

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