Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.176

v2.c11.176

² Cp. e.g. Garuḍapur., 64.7 f.; 65.10-14. Phallic worship or linga-worship in the Epic comes, of course, from a later time, and is an interpolation, as is somewhat needlessly shown in JRAS, 1907, p. 337 ff. The following are a few details: Çiva's member is always stiff, and this because of his unbroken chastity; therefore it is worshipped by the world. It is always kept standing fixedly up;