Where his funeral pyre was, sprang up a Shiva lingam, which exists to this day, as well as the marks of the flood.
"Vidyapati Bangiya Padabali Songs of the love of Radha and Krishna"
Vidyapati Thakura
They consist, invariably, of a "cella" containing the object of veneration, the lingam, surmounted by a high-pitched conical stone roof.
"A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil"
T. R. Swinburne
The Lingayats bury the dead in a sitting posture with the lingam or emblem of Siva, which has never left the dead man during his lifetime, clasped in his right hand.
"The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II"
R. V. Russell