Though major Hindu temples are encouraged at sangams (confluence of rivers), river banks, lakes and seashore, Brhat Samhita and Puranas propose temples may also be developed wherever a purely natural source of drinking water is not present. Here far too, they suggest that a pond be designed ideally in front https://share.evernote.com/note/33583c81-af97-9fa0-cdca-f6b0499ae6c9