noun
- (in Shaktism) the external female genitals regarded as the symbol of Shakti.Compare lingam(def 2).
noun Hinduism
- the female genitalia, regarded as a divine symbol of sexual pleasure and matrix of generation and the visible form of Sakti
- an image of these as an object of worship
n.1799, from Sanskrit, “female sexual principle as an object of veneration,” literally “vulva, womb.”