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In article <4hnajc$i0q@babbage.ece.uc.edu>, Satyanad Kichenassamy <kichenas@.cis.umn.edu> wrote: >In article <4hkmdj$o8h@babbage.ece.uc.edu>, >Vijay Sadananda Pai <vijaypai@mridangam.rice.edu> wrote: >>In article <4hdkpq$o7s@babbage.ece.uc.edu>, >>Rajan P. Parrikar <parrikar@spot.Colorado.EDU> wrote: >>>Incidently, Ramnathi is home for the family >[...] >> >>But I think there's another neat Shiva linga somewhere around >>there which was given to Ravana by Shiva himself, but then >>cheated away from Ravana by Ganesh dressed as a brahmin boy. >>Anyone know anything about this one? >> >>-- Vijay >>-- > > >You may be thinking of GOkarNa. I think (in one account at least) >R. had neglected to meditate on VighnEs'vara, hence his mishap. I think you are right. There are, however, several lingas of mythological and historical significance in Goa which is not surprising given that Goa was at one point in its history a major Shaivite stronghold (there is the legend (unsubstantiated, of course) doing the rounds even today that Shankaracharya travelled to the village of Kavalem (today the site of the famous ShantaDurga temple) to obtain his dikhsha from Gaudapada). There is a book cataloguing all the important lingas across India with associated notes and photographs that I once saw in the U of Colorado library. Does anyone remember its title, authors and other details? r
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