Types of Shiva Lingams - Different ingredients by which a Shiva Linga can be made up of
It is made of eight metals and cures one of the leprosy.
2.Vaidurya Lingam
It is made of a precious stone called vaidurya – lapis and protects one from the enemy’s arrogant prattle
3.Sphatika Lingam
It is made of crystal and bestows fulfilment of all desires.
4.Trapu Lingam
It is made of tagara metal and makes one’s life free from enemies, if adored.
5.Ayasa Lingam
It is made of vitroil of sulphate and relieves one from the menace of enemies.
6.Sheesha Lingam
It is made of lead and makes the adorer invulnerable to foes.
7.Navanita Lingam
It is made of butter and confers fame and wealth.
8.Durvakadaja Lingam or Garika Lingam
It is made of a kind of grass – agrostis linaries and saves the adorer from untimely or accidental death.
9.Karpura Lingam
It is made of camphor and bestows emancipation.
10.Ayaskanta Lingam
It is made of magnet and confers siddhi – super natural powers.
11.Ashtadhaatu Lingam
It is made of a mixture of Ashtadhaatu (Sanskrit: eight specified holy metals, viz., gold, silver, copper etc.), and bestows sarvasiddhi – all supernatural powers.
12.Mouktika Lingam
It is made of the ashes obtained by burning pearls and confers auspiciousness and fortune.
13.Pittala Lingam or Kamsya Lingam
It is made of an alloy of brass and bell metal and confers the release of soul from body.
14.Bhasma Lingam
It is made of ash and confers all desirable merits.
15.Guda Lingam or Sita Lingam
It is made of jaggery or sugar and confers blissful life when adored.
16.Vamsankura Lingam
It is made of the tender leaves of bamboo, and confers a long line of genealogy.
17.Pishtaka Lingam
It is made of rice flour and blesses the adorer with education.
18.Dadhidugdha Lingam
It is made of milk and curd, on separating the entire quantity of water, and blesses the adorer with property and happiness.
19.Suvarna Lingam
It is made of gold and confers mukti -- deliverance of soul from body.
20.Rajata Lingam
It is made of silver and confers fortune.
21.Dhaanya Lingam
It is made of grain and blesses bumper crops to the adorer.
22.Phala Lingam
It is made of fruits and blesses the owner of orchards with good crops of fruits.
23.Dhatri Lingam
It is made of a kind of acid fruit – Phyllanthus emblica, and bestows liberation.
24.Gandha Lingam
It is made of three ingredients -- four parts of sandal paste, three parts of kumkumam and two parts of musk. Size determines the quantity and cost to be put in, but the ratio remains constant. If worship is made to that sandal paste lingam, one gets blessed with Sivasayujyamukti - merging of his jivatma into the Paramatma. Then the cycle of birth after death comes to dead end.
25.Pushpa Lingam
This is made of various kinds of fresh, fragrant, multi-coloured pleasant flowers. It blesses the adorer with kingship and acquisition of land.
26.Gosakru Lingam
It is made of the dung of brown coloured cow. The adorer will be blessed with wealth, if he worships that lingam.
27.Valuka Lingam
It is made of fine sand and the worship confers the status of Vidhyadhara, belonging to one of the denominations of worshipful angels, besides Shiva-sayujya prapti (Sanskrit: being one with Lord Shiva).
28.Paarada Lingam
It is made of mercury and bestows inestimable fortune.
29.Yavagodhumasalij Lingam
It is made of a combination of grains of barley and the soil from the grazing field of cows, and if adored, it confers santanaprapti in addition to wealth.
30.Sitakhanda Lingam
It is made of sugar candy and blesses the adorer with robust health and disease free easeful life.
31.Lavana Lingam
It is made of salt mixed with the powder of Hartal and Trikatukala. It blesses the adorer with Vasikaranasakti -- the power that subdues other with the help of spells and charms.
32.Tilapista Lingam
It is made with the paste of gingili seeds. The desires of the adorer are fulfilled.
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