A mukhalinga or mukhalingam (Sanskrit: मुखलिङ्गम्, romanized: mukhaliṅga; literally "lingam with a face") is a lingam represented with one or more human...
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Mukhalingam, also known as Srimukhalingam or Mukhalinga, is a village panchayat in Jalumuru mandal of Srikakulam district in the Indian state of Andhra...
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origin in South India. Sadasiva is usually represented in the form of a Mukhalinga with the number of faces varying from one to five. The first ever sculpture...
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corridor-like space. The sacro sanctum, or the main idol, is a stone Mukhalinga with a silver yoni base bound with a silver serpent. It is one metre high...
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cloudy backdrop A view of Salar Jung Museum along with Musi River Eka-Mukhalinga, 4th or 5th century CE Nandi, 12th century CE Mayur Pankhi in ivory Royal...
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The primary religious image in the temple is a mukhalinga of the 16th or 17th century. A mukhalinga is a linga with a human face. In general, the linga...
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thousand facets (sahasralinga) or of light relief in several human figures (mukhalinga). Banalinga stones are quite strong and the hardness is a 7 on the Mohs...
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Pashupatinath Temple at Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh A 10th-century four-face Mukhalinga, Nepal 64 lingams (Nepal) An 11th-century linga-yoni plaque with a worshipper...
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goddesses, and intricately carved sculptures. The temple's Ekamukha Linga, a mukhalinga or faced lingam, with a detailed head of Shiva, is a much studied example...
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the Buddha, a 0.6-m-tall sculpture of the goddess Ganga on her mount, a mukhalinga depicting Shiva, a figure of an elephant with a man and woman riding on...
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13th centuries. The well crafted and molded bronze sculptures are of Mukhalinga, Avalokitesvara, Tara, and Vishnu. The terracotta exhibits are from the...
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and heavy style, but often with a powerful impact; Harle describes the mukhalinga in Cave 4 as "pulsating with psychic power". The most famous is the 7...
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the Elephanta Caves Painting of Padmapani Cave 1 at Ajanta The Shiva mukhalinga (faced-lingam) from the Bhumara Temple Nalrajar Garh fortification wall...
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existing temple. Other steles indicate that the temple had contained a mukhalinga decorated with jewelry and resembling an angel's head. Foreign robbers...
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Lady Po Nagar. The main symbols of Cham Shaivism were the lingam, the mukhalinga, the jaṭāliṅgam, the segmented liṅgam, and the kośa. A liṅga (or liṅgam)...
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as 'man with four faces') is dedicated to Shiva and has a four-faced mukhalinga in its sanctum. It stands in front of the 'Parvati Temple', but its sanctum...
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representation of Shiva with multiple or five faces is referred to as Sadasiva or Mukhalinga and is central to the Sarvamnaya tradition. The textual basis for the...
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into creative faculty, is artistically seen as tantric realization in Mukhalinga or "face-linga", the two overlapping components forming a visual unity...
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Ganesha and Kartikeya. The cave has two Shiva lingas, of which one is a mukhalinga (linga with face). This cave had a Sahastralinga (main linga with many...
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cutting the nose of Surpanakha (Ramayana) Sculptures Vishnu Mother Goddess Mukhalinga of Shiva, 5th century CE The sculptures from the medieval period are divided...
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excavations have unearthed a mukhalinga (Shiva linga with face) made from soapstone in the late Gupta-style. The mukhalinga is now in the front of the nearby...
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of some lingas is engraved the face of Siva. Such lingas are called mukhalingas. Some lingas are segmented into three parts: a square base symbolic of...
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kingdom got united and reclaimed its glory. They ruled the region from Mukhalinga and Dantapura of Northern Andhra. After the Gupta withdrawal, it was ruled...
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the district.it was built by Danaranva Deva of Eastern Ganga Dynasty of Mukhalinga Kataka near Paralakhemundi. Paikapada is located at 19°19′43″N 84°55′18″E...
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Collection of đàn đá of Bình Đa 3000 BP Đồng Nai Provincial Museum Biên Hòa 7 Mukhalinga of Ba Thê 6th century - Funan Kingdom An Giang Provincial Museum Long...
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