Bayathil Erundu Vidhuthalai  (paper book, Tamil, J Krishnmurthy)

Linga worship is prominent in the worship of Shiva. The most ancient of the Shiva forms is the Shiva lingam, which symbolizes and worships the Lord, the past parolee. Shiva, the absolute god of vegetarianism; The word Shiva has many meanings such as goodness, abomination of God, salvation, blur, purity, elevation, bliss, so it can be deduced from the word Shiva that purity and goodness and blur are broken. The Upper Lord has sung that Lord Shiva, the number one, is the form of Arutperum Sothi without beginning and end, who embodies the fragrance of a flower and the nectar of milk. The Lingam is the glorious test that measures all the worlds so that the four faces and Tirumala cannot see the bottom. This auspicious lingam is the source of all temples and is the source of blessings in all temples. Religious history has it that after the appearance of Lord Shiva in the form of Sothi, there were twelve Sotilingams worshiped in twelve places in the Indian subcontinent. As Thirumal and Nanmugan gave the scene, the places where Paranjothi appeared and gave the screw to the devotees became known as Sothilinga sites. Of the twelve Sothilingam sites where Lord Shiva appeared as Sothi, five are in the state of Maharashtra, namely Triyambagam, Kusumeswaram, Nageswaram, Vaithiyanatham and Bhimasankaram. Mahakalam and Ongareswaram are in Madhya Pradesh. Kedaram is in the state of Uttarakhand and Visvesvaraya is in Uttar Pradesh. Somnath is located in the state of Gujarat. Srisailam in Andhra Pradesh and Iremeswaram in Tamil Nadu