Indian Sculpture c8.168

c8.168

This notion is strengthened by the compositional liṅgam of the three superimposed figures. The compositional unity of Yakṣa or Śiva figure with the liṅgam had been established long ago.²¹⁹ In other cases the Śiva in the liṅgam looks out with one face or with four or five—the fifth, however, invisible—from the liṅgam;²²⁰ in the type of liṅgodbhava mūrti²²¹ his entire figure appears in the bursting liṅgam.