This inscription accompanies an ascetic figure with jaṭāmukuṭa in one of the caves on the path leading to the Nīlakaṇṭha temple at the hill fortress of Kalinjar in the Banda district in Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh. The figure of the ascetic is carved to the left of an ekamukha liṅga. next to The name Bhāvasomeśvara indicates a Pāśupata ascetic (names starting with Bhāva- are a common feature of Pāśupatas and there is much other evidence for the presence of Pāśupatas at Kalinjar). The same name is know from a 12th-century pedestal inscription of a Śaiva ascetic at Menal (Rajasthan), another Pāśupata centre.
Ekamukhaliṅga shrine of the Bhāvasomeśvara inscription
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| Author | Peter Bisschop |
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| Language | संस्कृतम् |
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