Just as a supplement here, pictures of the Shri Yantra Temple in Amarkantak,
which is built as a 3 dimensional Shriyantra Mount Meru. It wasn't there yet at
GD's time, in fact it was still being constructed when I was there, but it is
reminiscent of the spirit of the place. There is of course a
Richie wrote Now, if the Adi Shankara wrote the Sounda, then he must have
included the fifteen bijas contained within, would he not?
The crucial word here is IF, Richard, as scholars agree that he never wrote
it. But there is no doubt of the fact that Shri Vidya found entry into the