Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Gray with a glossy maroon helmet and a dotted red seam.

This tantric lingam is from Narmada River, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is quartz crystal & iron. The article describes Banalinga as chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline quartz with iron oxide deposits, and says scholars link their naturally occurring markings, considered spiritually auspicious, to meteoric iron. Smooth, lightly worn gray body topped by a deep red-brown cap with a high shine. A thin, wavy line of tiny red-brown beads crosses the lower half of the body. It is 9.5 inches high and 5.75 in diameter.

Proper headgear and a stitched sash.