Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Physical Attributes Facet
3. Design Elements (hierarchy name)
4. design elements (attributes)
5. motifs
6. geometric motifs

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts
4. religions and religious concepts
5. religious concepts
6. doctrinal concepts

Narrower term/s

• Indumaṇḍala

Anotations

Scope note:

Multifunctional ritual and pictorial modes in which deities occupy purified geometric precincts. They are represented as geometric motifs, often circular and symbolic of the Universe, capable of innumerable variation and meaning in a variety of media.