variants
or linga
: a stylized phallic symbol that is worshipped in Hinduism as a sign of generative power and that represents the god Shiva compare yoni
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Transforming himself into a boar, Vishnu tunneled down into the earth to search for the origin of the lingam of light.
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Robert J. Stephens, The Conversation, 27 Sep. 2024
Magazine incorrectly said that the lingam was Japanese in origin.
—WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
A city of lingams dedicated to the Lord God Shiva, Varanasi is known as an auspicious place to die and a super-highway to heaven.
—Antonia Neubauer, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
In the popular telling, a Kashmiri Muslim named Buta Malik discovered the Shiva lingam in the eighteenth century.
—Fahad Shah, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2015
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Robert J. Stephens, The Conversation, 27 Sep. 2024
Magazine incorrectly said that the lingam was Japanese in origin.
—WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
A city of lingams dedicated to the Lord God Shiva, Varanasi is known as an auspicious place to die and a super-highway to heaven.
—Antonia Neubauer, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
In the popular telling, a Kashmiri Muslim named Buta Malik discovered the Shiva lingam in the eighteenth century.
—Fahad Shah, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2015
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“Lingam.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lingam. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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