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Example sentences for: lingam
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During a full moon, childless couples pray at the stone shrines depicting lingam and yoni (male and female genitalia).
During summer, thousands of devotees come to bathe in these ponds beneath a richly ornamented Shiva lingam.
As Mahadev, he is lord of reproduction represented by the lingam, a phallus symbol often appearing in his temples as a stump of stone rising from the female symbol, a disk called the yoni.
It stands in an un-touristy rubble-filled square where there are families washing, goats looking out of upstairs windows, and, behind a grill in a small kiosk, a lingam much venerated by older women, who keep it covered with flowers.