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SIVALINGOPASANA |
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Equating
linga with that Omnipresent Siva and offering prayer services
to it, like archana, abhisheka, harati etc. apart the elaborate
shodasopachara is very
common since yugas. And it is the tradition honoured, and a
heritage adored with mute consent. Its antiquity is rooted in the
Vedas. It was widespread not only in India but in far countries.
History dumps evidence through iconography, and calligraphy too that
made use of symbols
when writing had not attained perfection. The lingas of different
sizes and shapes installed in temples at the instance of sages and
gods are found throughout Bharatkhanda, as evidenced by the
existence of Snow linga in Amarnath cave in the Himalayas, and
Tirukkonamalai in Trincomalee, lying at the eastern coast of
Srilanka, the boundaries of North and South and at Prabhasa Pattana
in Gujarat and Bali in Java, the West and East ends. At some other
places too Swayambhu lingas are worshipped ardently, realising the
sacrosanct history of the place due to visitation of celestials, or
the sacredness of habitation of hermits.
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