单词 | shalgram |
释义 | ‖ shalgram|ˈʃælgrɑːm| Also salgram. [Hindī çālgrām, repr. Skr. çālagrāma the name of a village where this stone was found.] An ammonite or other fossil, sacred to Vishnu.
1784F. Gladwin tr. Ayeen Akbery II. 29 Salgram, is a black stone which the hindoos hold sacred. 1905Macphail Kenneth S. Macdonald x. 133 The Shalgram, from the geological point of view, is an ammonite fossil. Ibid., The Shalgram, he explained, was one of the three things essential to daily worship in an orthodox Hindu house. |

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