ORIENTAL SERIES.

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LINGA-LINGA PURANA.
omnipresent, but I am especially ID twelve forms and *
places.
These are the twelve great Lingas, which are as follow :
1. Soma-natha. 'Lord of the moon.' At Somnath Pattan, a
city which still remains in Guzerat. This was the celebrated
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idol destroyed by Mahmud of Ghazni.
2. Mallikarjuna or Sn-sa&. 'The mountain of Sri.' On a
mountain near the river Krishna.
3. Mahd-Mla, Maha-Jcahswara. At Ujjain. Upon the capture
of Ujjain in the reign of Altamsh, 1231 A.D., this deity of stone
was carried to Delhi and there broken up.
4. Omkara. This is also said to have been at Ujjain, but it
is probably the shrine of Mahcideva at Omkara Mandhatta, on
the Narmada.
5. Amareswara.
'
God of gods.' This is also placed at Ujjain,
6. Vaidya-natha.
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Lord of physicians/ At Deogarh in Bengal.
The temple is still in being, and is a celebrated place of pil-
grimage.
7. Ramesa or Rameswara. Lord of Rama.' On the island of
Ramisseram, between the continent and Ceylon, This Lingam,
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whose name signifies Kama's lord,'
is fabled to have been sot
up by Rama. The temple is still in tolerable repair, and is one
of the most magnificent in India.
8. Blilma Sankara. In Dakini. This is in all probability the
same with Bhlmeswara, a Lingam worshipped at Dracharam, in
the Rajamahendrl (Rajamundry) district, and there venerated as
one of the twelve.
9. Fisweswara. 'Lord of all' At Benares. It has been for
many centuries the chief object of worship at Benares. Ako
called Jyotir-lingana.
10. Tryamlaka, Tryaksha. Tri-ocular.' On the banks of the
Gomati,
11. Gautamesa. 'Lord of Gautama.'
12. Ked&resa, Kedara-ndtha. In the Himalaya. The deity is
represented as a shapeless mass of rock.
Naga-natha or Naga-nathesa and Vameswara are other names,
probably of No. 6 and No. n.
LINGA PURiZVA. "Where Maheswara (Siva), present in
the Agni Linga, explained (the objects of life), virtue, wealth,
pleasure, and final liberation, at tlio end of the Agni Kalpa, that
Puma, consisting of 11,000 stanzas, was called the Linga by