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Aryaman, Savitra, Savitra, Vivasvat, Indra, Indrajaya, Mitra, Rudra, Rudrajaya, and Bhudhara.15
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Figure 8
Diagram of the Deities for 81 Squares16
You don't need to know the names of all these deities. In fact, the vastu and Vedic texts often have different spellings of many of the names, and some texts even identify a deity by another name. There is a kernel of truth in Mark Twain's Following the Equator:
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Indeed, [India] is a country that runs richly to name. The great god Vishnu has 108108 special ones108 peculiarly holy onesnames just for Sunday
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15 Prasanna Kumar Acharya, ed. and trans. Architecture of Manasara: Illustrations of Architectural and Sculptural Objects, Manasara Series: Vol. V (New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1994).
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16 Ibid.

 
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