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LINGAYAT (from linga, the emblem of Siva)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 729 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LEO-LOB
LINGAYAT (from linga, the emblem of Siva) , the name of a
peculiar
  sect of Siva worshippers in southern India, who
call
  themselves Vira-Saivas (see HINDUISM). They carry on the person a stone linga (phallus) in a silver casket. The founder of
2 As the name of the fish, "
ling
  " is found in other Teut. language; cf. Dutch and Ger. Leng, Norw. langa, &c. It is generally connected in origin with "
long
 ," from the length of its
body
 . As the name of the common heather, Callum vulgaris (see HEATH) the word is Scandinavian; cf. Dutch and Dan. lyng, Swed. ljung.
the sect is said to have been Basava, a
Brahman
  prime minister of a Jain king in the 12th
century
 . The Lingayats are specially numerous in the
Kanarese
  country, and to them the
Kanarese
  language owes its cultivation as literature. Their priests are called Jangamas. In 1901 the
total
  number of Lingayats in all India was returned as more than 22 millions, mostly in Mysore and the adjoining districts of Bombay,
Madras
  and Hyderabad.


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