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initiation of the Lord of
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the respective world and finally they identify
with Siva either after a new rebirth on the earth or directly, without
being born again (Jaumamaranavic膩ra of Bhatta Vamadeva
KSTS, n.XIX).
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It is believed that the Lords of the self-born lingas always live in
the places where they are found. Thus Gauri is always immersed in ascetic
practices in the caves of Kashmir from Dhyanoddara in the easten part
of the Valley (RT, VIII, 1431and M.A.Stein's note, 1508, 1510); Visnu
is continuously fighting against the demons in Vitast膩, while in Sali-
gr膩ma, a sacred place near the sources of Gandaki, ne appears in his
peaceful aspect; Nara and Narayana always live in their hermitage in
Badari on Gandhamadana which is also a Jaivite holy place (TA, XXVIII,
244-246) and so on. on this account the place of pilgrimage is not only
a bridge of worlds, but also a place where the sacred space regains
its whole specificity of being beyond the profane world and time which
imply movement and change and hence the place of the mythologic arcne-
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type nas turned into stone; in other words, it has put a sign of equality
between the diachronic or earthly space and the synchronic or divine
Space. Dying in such a place, the Saivite will firstly experience the
archetypal pattern, becoming a spatial embodiment of the respective
divine nature%3B he may afterwards be reborn in a human shape maintaining
the acquired quality and, by further initiation, identifying with Siva.
The pilgrimage bears different names in the
Saivite tradition. The perambulation through holy places is a parikrama
or pradaksina. The circumambulation done on a
smaller scale within a
Small ambit as round a murti installed in a shrine, round a linga etc.