 All the pebbles rolling on its bed are said to take the shape of His emblem with the saying "Narmada Ke Kanker utte Sanka" (which is a popular saying in the Hindi belt of India) which means that ‘pebble stones of Narmada gets a personified form of Shiva’.Thus, these lingam shaped stones, called Banalinga are sought after for daily worship by the Hindus.The Bannalinga, as a divine aniconic symbol for worship, is held in reverence by the Shaivaites and Smartha Brahmins, to the same extent as the Saligrama Sila (murti) is held in reverence by the Vaishnavites.