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"Currant verba licet, manus est velocior illis: Nondum linga suum, dextra peregit opus."

From On the Nature of Thought or, The act of thinking and its connexion with a perspicuous sentence by Haslam, John

No confusion need arise; but strictly speaking, the linga sharira, or third principle, is the astral body, and that cannot be sent about as the vehicle of the higher principles.”

From Fashionable Philosophy and Other Sketches by Oliphant, Laurence

The area of each is very small, the linga of black or white marble occupying the centre.

From Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India by Jennings, Hargrave

Very small temples like the Mundiru, two, three, or five cubits high only, and containing a linga about a foot in height, are to be seen at Benares.

From Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India by Jennings, Hargrave

He at length consented to dismiss his anger on condition that the linga should become an object of universal worship.

From Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India by Jennings, Hargrave