"The design of the Kailasa remained, for all time, the perfect model of a Shivalinga, - the temple craftsman's vision of Shiva's wondrous palace in his Himalayan glacier, where in his Yogi's cell the Lord of the Universe, the great magician, controls the cosmic forces by the power of thought; the holy rivers, creating the life in the world below, enshrined in His matted locks; Parvati, His other Self, the Universal Mother, watching by His side."
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Dr. Ernest Binfield Havell (1861-1934), quoted in The Splendour That Was India, Survey Of Indian Culture And Civilisation by Shah K. T.
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