linga

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• The relation between icon and ruler is particularly well documented for the Shiva linga, whose looting, display, and desecration clearly carried a powerful political message, even if framed within the context of orthodox conformity.

  Academic text (2002)

• What distinguishes Ghaznavid practice is the treatment afforded to the linga and other looted Hindu icons brought to Ghazna.

  Academic text (2002)

• Eight svelte and finely detailed guardians surround a massive linga.

  Academic text (2007)

• The linga was housed in one of the most celebrated temples of medieval India, which stood in the coastal town of Somnath in Gujarat.

  Academic text (2002)

• According to other accounts, it was set at the entrance to Mahmud's palace, so that the thresholds of both the palace and mosque were composed of fragments of the linga.

  Academic text (2002)

• The linga was subsequently broken, and part of it was used to form the threshold of the entrance to the mosque of Ghazna, a practice for which there are earlier textual and archaeological parallels, not just in the Islamic world.

  Academic text (2002)

• The projection of the sanctum, beyond the eastern wall of the monastery and directly parallel to the temple housing the linga outside, further indicates that the two were meant to be ritually and visually linked (Figs. 5, 27).

  Academic text (2008)

• In the center is a linga, or a phallic shrine to Shiva, surrounded by cheap white tiles and lit with unsightly jury-rigged fluorescent tubes.

  Academic text (2007)

• Photo (Color): The figures that guard the linga shrines in the two caves show the development of sculptural style in the 6th century, from Jogeshwari's "heavy colossi" to Elephanta's more refined, svelte warriors.

  Academic text (2007)

• A Hindu priest blesses the devotees while performing rituals around the sacred linga.

Synonyms

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lingam

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A symbol in Hinduism that represents god Shiva and shows creative power, often in the shape of a penis

is a general symbol of divine energy and the deity without stressing physical form

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Etymology