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² The term *pīṭha* means a stool, seat, chair, throne, pedestal, an altar. The well-known fifty-one *Pīṭha-sthānas* are the sacred spots where the parts of the body of Satī (Pārvatī), the consort of Śiva, fell after she had been cut to pieces by the discus of Vishṇu. As the *liṅga* or phallus symbolically represents Śiva, so the *pīṭha* does his consort Pārvatī.