Usage examples (37)

• It is a natural cave and contains a self made lingam which is unending according to the people.
• Shiva's symbol -- the "lingam" with which Vishnu began the Creation -- is worshiped by everybody, apparently.
• It was merely an upright "lingam," at first, no larger than a stove-pipe, and stood in the midst of a shoreless ocean.
• '' After the temple trustees identified the 'lingam', we confirmed that the idols belonged to the temple, '' Ms Thilakavathy said.