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Hi.What's a cosmic man?Thanks  in advance

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More context please.

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A recurrent theme in Hindu religious thought is the homology which is held to exist between body and cosmos. Both are governed by the same laws, are constituted out of the same five elements and everything that exists in the one must also exist in the other (cf. Goudriaan, 1979:57). Hence all the gods and the whole of space are present within the human body – a notion which is explicitly elaborated in the Garuda Purana (part 15), an eschatological text to which the Benares sacred specialists continually refer. The homology is also one of the basic principles underlying the architectural theory of the Hindu temple, which is constructed on the plan of
a cosmic man (Beck, 1976);

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It is some kind of concept in the Hindu religion. Google search for hindu temple plan cosmic man led me to these:

http://www.surya-world.org/hindu-temple-and-the-structure-of-human-body-comparison/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purusha

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