पश्यन्ति paśyantī

There was much discussion on whether pran pratishtha can happen if a temple is not complete and if it is according shashtra. I am presenting here this issue according Mayamata Shilpa Shastra. Here it defines The Linga: Later in the same chapter it lays down rules on pran pratishtha (for sakala linga): Shloka 161 states that pran pratishtha can be done of  a “medium” (madhyamam) size murti in a half built temple. Clearly the ram mandir in Ayodhya seems to be neither finished completely nor is it merely completed upto the base, and therefore, the small or the large murti is not applicable. Mayamata describes the height of a lingam to be atleast 1/2 of the width of the garbha gruha with a maximum height of 3/5 the width of the garbha gruha. But this is not how it describes the size. The size of the murti is described based on ratio of its own width and height. Width 3/16 of height is a small murti Width 4/16 of height is a medium murti Width 5/16 of height is a large murti.   The...