Fractals in Indian Architecture

Indian and Southeast Asian temples and monuments exhibit a fractal structure: a tower surrounded by smaller towers, surrounded by still smaller towers, and so on, for eight or more levels. Quoting William Jackson,
    "The ideal form gracefully artificed suggests the infinite rising levels of existence and consciousness, expanding sizes rising toward transcendence above, and at the same time housing the sacred deep within."
In these cases the proliferation of towers represents various aspects of the Hindu pantheon. Click on each picture to enlarge in a new window.
Jackson goes on to assert that the whole religious vision of Hinduism has a fractal character:
    "This universe is like a ripe fruit appearing from the activity of the cit [consciousness]. There is a branch of a tree bearing innumerable such fruit. There is a tree having thousands of such branches. There is a forest with thousands of such trees. There is a mountainous territory having thousands of such forests. There is a territory containing thousands of such territories. There is a solar system containing thousands of such territories. There is a universe containing thousands of such solar systems. And there are many such universes contained within what is like an atom within an atom. This is what is known as cit or the subtle sun which illumines everything in the world. All the things of the world take their rise in it. Amidst all this incessant activity, the cit is ever in undisturbed repose."
So perhaps the fractal aspects of Hindu architecture reflects the fractal nature of Hindu cosmology.