 A brief description of the six sthala-s, according to the Lingayat tradition..The 8th century work Siddhanta Shikhamani provides a detailed description of the shatshtala and what a bhakta should do in each of the sthala.It divides each of the six Sthalas further into several 'avaantara' or 'antara' ('ಅವಾಂತರ'/'ಅಂತರ' in Kannada) sthalas, which he calls 'Linga sthala' embedded or included in ("अन्तर्गत" in) each sthala.