By V Narayana Murthi
Express Buzz - Tamilnadu (India)
VELLORE: The six-foot Shiva Lingam (minus the base), which was for the first time unearthed in the Palar riverbed near Pallikonda on May 18, has raised an interesting debate on the age of this beautiful stone carving that has been lodged at the Government Museum here.
The green Lingam is carved out of a single piece of stone that symbolizes the union of the three divinities of the Hindu trinity, Brahma (represented by the cubic base), Vishnu (by the octagonal section) and Shiva (the top portion). While the museum officials estimate the age of this lingam to be around four hundred years, linking the artefact to the Vijayanagar Naikkar period, whose rulers had built the famous Vellore fort, the possibility of its existence in the much earlier Pallava or Chola period is gaining grounds.
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