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J. Ph. Vogel— Triloknath. 
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two pillars. The roof and floor of the rest of the building are covered 
with masses of stalactite and stalagmite.” 1 Besides these numberless 
svayambhii lingas there is in the centre of the cave, as chief object of 
worship, a linga of white marble, which is pancavaktra and thus forms 
a link between the linga and the image just described. 
The substance of the present paper may be briefly stated thus: 
that in the Candrabhaga valley and also on the southern side of the 
mid-Himalayan range on the upper Bias Triloknath is the name by 
which the Bodkisattva Avalokitegvara is indicated, while along the 
lower course of the Bias river the same name is assigned to £iva, repre¬ 
sented either as a linga or as a five-faced statue, which in its attributes 
shows a marked resemblance to some of Avalokita’s images. 
1 C. J. Rodgers. Revised List of Objects of Archaeological interest in the 
Punjab (Lahore, 1891), p. 43. 
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