PARASHURAMESHWAR TEMPLE – ANDHRA PRADESH – CHITTOOR – GUDIMALAM – Part 2 The Temple contains a very early LINGA with a full-length figure of SHIVA, housed in the GARBHAGRIHA of the temple. This is one of the earliest LINGA associated with SHIVA discovered so far, and it has been dated to the 2nd/1st century BCE. This is "the only sculpture to survive from ancient South India, before sculpture’s were made under the Pallava Dynasty around the 6th- 7th century Current Era. Continue Reading...