Shalagrama, Śālagrāma, Sālagrāma, Salagrama, Shala-grama: 17 definitions
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Shalagrama has 16 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Śālagrāma can be transliterated into English as Salagrama or Shalagrama, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚālagrāma (शालग्राम):—
1) m. a) Nomen proprium eines bei den Vaiṣṇava für heilig gehaltenen, an der Gaṇḍakī gelegenen Dorfes, so genannt nach einem darin wachsenden Śāla-Baume (Comm. zu [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 8, 29]); von daher kommen die heilig verehrten Ammoniten (śilā), die oft schlechtweg śālagrāma n. (s. u. gaṇḍakī
2) genannt werden. [Colebrooke 1, 156.] yathā hi viṣṇoḥ śālagrāmaḥ [] zu [Chāndogyopaniṣad] [?S. 530. Viṣṇupurāṇa 2, 1, 24. 13, 4. 7. Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 8, 29.] śālagrāmābhidhāne bhagavataḥ kṣetre (= cakratīrthe Comm.) [Prabodhacandrodaja 83, 6. 7.] [Oxforder Handschriften 21], a, [14. 22], b, [27. 29. fg. 39], b, [6. 60], b, [2. 3. 73], b, [35. 145], a, [35] (sāla). tīrtha 67, a, 25. kṣetra (sāla) [Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 262.] giri [VĀMANA][?-Pāṇini’s acht Bücher im Śabdakalpadruma u. d. W.] śilā [Weber’s Verzeichniss 117] [?(LXXIII). Oxforder Handschriften 20,b,26. 28.] śilācakra [22,b,31.] [PAÑCAR.1,2,24.] śālagrāmaśca (Ammonit) yantrāṇām [1,76.3,13,26.] [Oxforder Handschriften 24,a,23. 25. 85,b,7.] stotra [Bibliothecae sanskritae 583. 599.] — b) der in Śālagrama verehrte Viṣṇu [Mahābhārata 3, 8102.] —
2) f. ī ein Name der Gaṇḍakī [Lassen’s Indische Alterthumskunde 1, 57.]
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Partial matches: Shala, Grama, Cala.
Starts with: Shalagrama-kosha, Shalagrama-shila, Shalagramadanakalpa, Shalagramadanavidhi, Shalagramagiri, Shalagramakalpa, Shalagramakshetra, Shalagramalakshana, Shalagramalinga, Shalagramamahatmya, Shalagramanirnaya, Shalagramapariksha, Shalagramashiladanapaddhati, Shalagramashilamahatmya, Shalagramashilapariksha, Shalagramastotra, Shalagramatirtha.
Ends with: Narasimha Shalagrama, Vishalagrama.
Full-text (+71): Shalagrama-shila, Calakkiramam, Narayanashila, Shalagramalakshana, Shalagramanirnaya, Shalagramapariksha, Shalagramakalpa, Shalagramamahatmya, Shaligrama, Shalagramadanakalpa, Shalagramastotra, Shalagrama-kosha, Shalagramatirtha, Shalagramakshetra, Shalagramagiri, Salakramam, Svarnanabha, Shiladana, Lakshmijanardana, Narasimha Shalagrama.
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The Garuda Purana (by Manmatha Nath Dutt)
Chapter LXVI - Description of the specific marks of Salagrama < [Agastya Samhita]
Chapter XLV - Characteristic marks of Shalagrama Stones (Shaligram) < [Agastya Samhita]
Chapter LIV - Progeny of Priya Vrata and incidental description of the Seven Islands of the Earth < [Agastya Samhita]
The Devi Bhagavata Purana (by Swami Vijñanananda)
Chapter 24 - On the glory of Tulasī < [Book 9]
Chapter 35 - On the description of the various hells for the various sinners < [Book 9]
Chapter 30 - On the conversation between Sāvitrī and Yama and on the fruition of Karmas < [Book 9]
Garga Samhita (English) (by Danavir Goswami)
Verse 4.19.122 < [Chapter 19 - A Thousand Names of Srī Yamunā]
Verse 3.1.30 < [Chapter 1 - The Worship of Śrī Girirāja]
Chaitanya Bhagavata (by Bhumipati Dāsa)
Verse 1.5.13 < [Chapter 5 - Eating the Mendicant Brāhmaṇa’s Offerings]
Verse 1.5.20 < [Chapter 5 - Eating the Mendicant Brāhmaṇa’s Offerings]
Verse 2.8.282 < [Chapter 8 - The Manifestation of Opulences]
The Skanda Purana (by G. V. Tagare)
Chapter 188 - The Greatness of Śālagrāma Tīrtha < [Section 3 - Revā-khaṇḍa]
Chapter 255 - Greatness of Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa < [Section 1 - Tīrtha-māhātmya]
Chapter 2 - Rites to Be Observed in Kārttika < [Section 4 - Kārttikamāsa-māhātmya]
The Agni Purana (by N. Gangadharan)
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