
thumb|Lakulisha at Sangameshvara Temple at Mahakuta, Karnataka (Chalukya dynasty|Chalukya, 7th century CE). His 5th–10th century ithyphallic statues are also found in seated yogi position in [[Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere.]] Lakulisha ( ) (Etymology: लगुड (staff) or लकुट (mace) + ईश (lord) = meaning, the lord with a staff or mace or club or stick) was a prominent Shaivite revivalist, reformist and preceptor of the doctrine of the Pashupatas, one of the oldest sects of Shaivism.
thumb|Lakulisha at Sangameshvara Temple at Mahakuta, Karnataka (Chalukya dynasty|Chalukya, 7th century CE). His 5th–10th century ithyphallic statues are also found in seated yogi position in [[Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere.]] Lakulisha ( ) (Etymology: लगुड (staff) or लकुट (mace) + ईश (lord) = meaning, the lord with a staff or mace or club or stick) was a prominent Shaivite revivalist, reformist and preceptor of the doctrine of the Pashupatas, one of the oldest sects of Shaivism.
According to some scholars, Lakulisha was the founder of the Pashupata sect. Others argue that the Pashupata doctrine was already in existence before Lakulisha, and he was only its first formal preceptor.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).