1. Aahtaloha Lingam 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. Spatika Lingam It is made of crystal and bestows fulfilment of all desires.
4. Padara Lingam It is made of mercury and bestows inestimable fortune.
5. Trapu Lingam It is made of tagara metal and makes one’s life free from
enemies, if adored.
6. Ayasa Lingam It is made of vitroil of sulphate and relieves one from the menace
of enemies.
7. Seesa Lingam It is made of lead and makes the adorer invulnerable to foes.
8. Ashtadhtu Lingam It is made of minerals and bestows sarvasiddi – all super
natural powers.
9. Navanita Lingam It is made of butter and confers fame and wealth.
10. Durvakadaja Lingam Or Garika Lingam It is made of a kind of grass – agrostis
linaries and saves the adorer from untimely or accidental death.
11. Karpura Lingam It is made of camphor and bestows emancipation.
12. Ayaskanta Lingam It is made of magnet and confers siddhi – super natural powers.
13. Mouktika Lingam It is made of the ashes obtained by burning pearls and confers auspiciousness
and fortune.
14. Suvarana Lingam It is made of gold and confers mukti -- deliverance of soul from
body.
15. Rajita Lingam It is made of silver and confers fortune.
16. Pittala Lingam Or Kamsya Lingam It is made of an alloy of brass and bell metal
and confers the release of soul from body.
17. Bhamsa Lingam It is made of ash and confers all desirable merits.
18. Guda Lingam Or Sita Lingam It is made of jaggery or sugar and confers blissful
life when adored.
19. Vamsankura Lingam It is made of the tender leaves of bamboo, and confers a long line
of genealogy.
20.
Pishta Lingam It
is made of rice flour and blesses the adorer with education.
21. Dhadhidhugdha Lingam It is made of milk and curd, on separating the entire quantity of
water, and blesses the adorer with property and happiness.
22. Dhanya Lingam It is made of grain and blesses bumper crops to the adorer.
23. Phala Lingam It is made of fruits and blesses the owner of orchards with good
crops of fruits.
24. Dhatri Lingam It is made of a kind of acid fruit – phyllanthus Emblica and
bestows liberation.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. Gosakru Lingam It is made of the dung of brown coloured cow. The adorer will be
blessed with wealth, if he worships that lingam.
28. 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 Sivasayujyaprapti.
29. Yavagodhumasalij Lingam It is made of rice, maize and wheat flour, 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, if worshipped. |