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The Journal of the Ganganatha Jha Research Institute November 1946

1947

But what ground is there to connect the litga with these objects ? In the Anufdsanaparvan of the Mabeibbdrata we meet for the first time with the phallic interpretation of the Siva-ligga. [...] The passages in which the account occurs are very late ; and it is possible that the theory was evolved out of a confusion between the li►gworthip and the cult of the phallus. [...] But the excellence of the ligga consists in its suggestion of the formlessness and infinitude of the Supreme. [...] ' Of all the representations of the deity which India has imagined' observes Barth. ' these (livas) are pehaps the least offensive to look at.'12 In fact in the mind of no genuine devotee of Siva is the idea of the membrum virile generated when he worships the Siva-ligga. [...] Of the three classes of cult objects discovered iii the Indus Valley the linga is to be connected if at all with the second group of stones which even according to Marshall are not likely to be the reprsentations of the phallus.
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Pages
97
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120072
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii R.D. Ranade, A. Siddiqi, Umesh Mishar view
Saivism and the Indus Civilisation
1-10 T.M.P. Mahadevan view
Food and Drink in Ancient India from Panini’s Astadhyayi (Anna-Pana)
11-34 Vasudeva Agrawala view
So-Called Geographical and Astronomical Evidence to the Mahabharata Problem
35-44 P.R. Iyer view
Do the References to the Yavana Invasion of India Found in the Yugapurana Patanjali’s Mahabhasya and the Malavikagnimitra form the Evidence of one Single Event?
45-60 N.N. Ghosh view
Mughal Revenue in 1680 A.D.
61-78 Dasharatha Sharma view
Obituary
79-82 Madan Malaviya view
Reviews of Books
83-94 unknown view

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