lingam
noun
the masculine gender.
linga
-
a variation of
lingam.
Example Sentences
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In the tank of the temple of Mahakut is a half submerged shrine, from which rises a stone linga on which are carved four faces bearing moustaches.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot
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 Hargrave Jennings
The next king, Yaśovarman, who founded the town of Angkor round the Bayon, built near his palace another linga temple, now known as Ba-puon.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot
As, however, “no confusion need arise” from my describing how I went about in my linga sharira, I will continue to use it as the term for my vehicle of transportation.
From Fashionable Philosophy and Other Sketches by Laurence Oliphant
The linga is generally a tall, polished, cylindrical, black stone, apparently inserted into another stone formed like an elongated saucer, though in reality the whole is sculptured out of one block of basalt.
From Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other by Thomas Inman
