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- A mukhalinga or mukhalingam (Sanskrit: मुखलिङ्गम्, romanized: mukhaliṅga; literally "lingam with a face") is a lingam represented with one or more human...
- 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...
- Mukhalingam, also known as Srimukhalingam or Mukhalinga, is a village panchayat in Jalumuru mandal of Srikakulam district in the Indian state of Andhra...
- space.[citation needed] 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...
- subcontinent and southeast Asia includes simple cylinders set inside a yoni; mukhalinga rounded pillars with carvings such as of one or more mukha (faces); and...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...