brahmasutra
ब्रह्मसूत्र brahmasūtraThe central axis of a temple, the invisible line running from the doorway through the heart of the building to the devata in the garbhagriha, laid along the chosen direction of orientation beneath the vimana.
Where this term appears
- Why do so many temples face east? Temples
So the sacred axis of the building, the brahmasutra that runs from the doorway through the heart to the deity, is most naturally laid toward the east, opening the temple on the very quarter the diagram hands to…
- What is Advaita Vedanta? Philosophy
His commentary on the Brahma Sutras , the Brahmasutra-bhashya , is securely his and is the foundation of everything.
- What is bhakti? Essentials
The structural argument is in his Brahmasutra commentary at 1.1.4: meditation depends on the meditating person and so "may either be performed or not be performed or modified," whereas knowledge "can therefore …