He noted that wherever there was room for one more lingam, a lingam was there. |
The altar's focal point on Sivaratri is the lingam, Lord Siva represented as a simple rounded stone. |
At the feast for Shiva, for example, villagers prepare a huge, steamed rice cake made in the shape of a lingam and stuffed with cheese, molasses, and coconut. |
His phallus, or lingam, enshrined in most Hindu temples, is worshipped and revered by the world's 300 million followers of the Hindu religion. |
Fifty thousand devotees praying to the lingam and weeping passionately with hands clasped around their necks were massacred in cold blood. |
When he did not return, Sita quickly made a lingam and Ram installed it. |