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SURROUNDINGS OF TEMPLE 99 35 36 The Indian temple was the hub of social and religious life in ancient times.
cleanliness and the beauty of the surroundings were highly valued. The
BSP states that gods like to reside in those places which have lakes,
flowers, trees and melodious notes of royal swans. The BS says that
temples were constructed where there were rivers, groves, springs and
mountains etc., as it was believed that gods love such places. In the
words of Stella Kramrisch, 'The gods always play where rivers have for
their bracelets the sound of the flight of curleys and the voice of swans.
for their speech, water as their garment, crops for their zone, the
flowering trees on their banks as ear-rings, and the confluence of river as
their hips, raised sand-banks as breasts and the plumage of swans, their
mantle'.
37 THE MATERIAL FOR BUILDING A TEMPLE
The MP describes the possible forms of the Brahmanical temple and says.
that they may be built either of wood or brick or stone. Utpala commenting
in the tenth century in the BS 39 quotes Hiranyagarbha, according to him
the range of substances used in definite types of buildings was large.
Mandira was made of stone, V盲stubhavana of baked bricks, Sumanta of
unbaked bricks, Sudh膩ra of mud, M膩nasya of wood, Nandana of bamboo,