CEBU, Philippines – An ordinance prohibiting massage parlors from providing the controversial lingam massage services to clients without medical advice from a doctor was approved yesterday in first ...

CEBU, Philippines – The Cebu City government will look into the legality of spas offering lingam massage as such is not included in the business permits granted to the establishments offering them.

An antique maragatha lingam (emerald lingam) installed at Kunnathur chatram, a century-old guest house demolished few years back has gone missing mysteriously. MADURAI: An antique maragatha lingam ...

Chennai/Thanjavur: Hardly three weeks after the idol wing sleuths seized an antique maragatha (emerald) Siva Lingam in Salem, another such lingam, which is smaller in size, was seized in Govindapuram ...

Generally, idols in different forms, postures, etc., occupy the sanctum sanctorum in temples. Siva temples are an exception in that the main deity is in the form of a lingam, an inverted U shape.

appear in the Vedic texts, particularly in the Atharvaveda and the Shvetashvatara Upanishad. The lingam is often described as a cosmic pillar of light, symbolizing Shiva’s boundless and formless ...