Indian temple architecture expresses a process of emanation, reflecting ideas about hierarchies of gods proceeding one from another, and about the birth and evolution of the universe.

印度寺庙建筑展现出佛化的过程，它反映了不同阶层的神灵相继进化的观点和宇宙起源与演变的观点。

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The temple is built in the likeness of the universe and is its reduced image.

寺庙被构建的和宇宙非常近似甚至就是宇宙的翻版。

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The temple is built in the likeness of the universe and i alsos its reduced image.

寺庙被构建的和宇宙相当近似甚至就是宇宙的翻版。

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Pick up some milky sweets or eat a nice, hot curry off a banana leaf, and see some stunning examples of Tamil temple architecture at the Sri Mariamman Temple, whose four walls enclose both the holy space of worship and, to the faithful, the universe entire.

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