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Following the Equator
Part 6

CHAPTER LI
20/27

And there also you will see a very uncommon thing--an image of Shiva.

You have seen his lingam fifty thousand times already, but this is Shiva himself, and said to be a good likeness.

It has three eyes.

He is the only god in the firm that has three.

"The well is covered by a fine canopy of stone supported by forty pillars," and around it you will find what you have already seen at almost every shrine you have visited in Benares, a mob of devout and eager pilgrims.


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