In ancient Indian texts, a temple is a place for Tirtha - pilgrimage.[8] It is a sacred site whose ambience and design attempts to symbolically condense the ideal tenets of Hindu way of life.[7] All the cosmic elements that create and celebrate life in Hindu pantheon, are present in a Hindu temple - from fire to water, from images of nature to deities, from the feminine to the masculine, from kama to artha, from the fleeting sounds and incense smells to Purusha - the eternal nothingness yet universality - is part of a Hindu temple architecture.[8]