South-Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses c9.s15.16

c9.s15.16

² In the famous temple on the Srisailam Hill (Kurnool district) where the influence of the Lingāyata sect was once very great, is a pavilion adjoining the Nandi-maṇḍapa. An inscription of the fourteenth century A.D. describes it as the place where the votaries, evidently of the Virabhadra form of Siva, offered up their heads in order to propitiate the furious god; Madras Epigraphical Report for 1914-15, p. 92, paragraph 15.