Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.s3.t7.1

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¹⁹⁴ Certain stone lingas have been found in the Indus valley which show that the cult was a very popular one in those days Przyluski in his paper on 'Non-Aryan Loans in Indo-Aryan' has shown that both the words langula (plough) and linga (penis) are of Austro-Asiatic origin in their origin and in their etymology they mean one and the same thing The linga worship was of an Aryan origin is clearly shown by the opprobrious terms applied to the phallic worshippers in Rigveda (Pre-Aryan Elements in Indian Culture Atul K Sur the Calcutta Review, Nov-Dec 1932 p 241 f) also see Rose, Tribes and castes of Punjab and N W Province Vol I pp 260 ff