Mukhalinga
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Iconography of stone Mukhalingas in texts
- Mukhalingas as metal sheaths
- One-faced Mukhalinga
- Four/Five-faced Mukhalinga
- Evolution
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|A Gupta era one-faced mukhalinga, [[Bhumara]] thumb|A four-faced mukhalinga, 10th century, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco|Asian Art Museum
A mukhalinga or mukhalingam (Sanskrit: मुखलिङ्गम्, romanized: ; literally "lingam with a face") is a lingam represented with one or more human faces in Hindu iconography. A lingam is an aniconic representation of the Hindu god Shiva. Mukhalingas may be of stone or can be made of a metal sheath, which covers the normal lingam.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mukhalinga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.