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It is also true that the phallus of Śiva and his pedestal (*pīṭha*) have been elaborately treated in two separate chapters.¹ This, however, does not seem to have been due to the author's or his patron's predilection for Śaivism. For the phallus of Śiva is a very famous object of the Hindu sculpture; and it would have been given the prominence all the same even if the artist had belonged to an entirely different sect, because without this his treatise would have been incomplete. Similarly the extollation of the phallus worship added in conclusion may be explained².