SHALIGRAM SHILA
Shaligram shila is rare variety of stone is mined and specifically used to make sacred idols as per hindu mythology, that eminates positive and creative energy surrounding it. considered to be a representation of lord maha vishnu-'the protector'.
It is believed that a different variety of krishna shila is also known as "shalagram" that can be preserved and worshipped with atmost sanctity and hygene,for good omen.
The sacred saligrama stone may be white, yellow, brown, red, black, green,tawny or ash coloured.They may contain stains,and they may be multi coloured.The colours might be excessive or faded.Hence they occur in many colours,shades and forms. Depending on the purity,material content and size of these rare items they are categarized as low contribution(sakshina) variety, high compensation and rich contribution types.
Krishna (mythology)
Krishna (mythology), in Hinduism and Indian mythology, the eighth avatar, or incarnation, of the god Vishnu. According to tradition, Vishnu appeared as Krishna to rid the world of a tyrannical king named Kamsa, the son of a demon.
Numerous legends describe Krishna's miracles and heroic exploits. He slew or defeated scores of evil demons and monsters. He appears prominently, sometimes as a deity, in the epic poem Mahabharata, in which he sides with the Pandavas, one of two contending families, and acts as the charioteer of the hero Arjuna. It is to Arjuna, troubled on the eve of the decisive battle, that Krishna delivers the celebrated discourse on duty and life known as the Bhagavad-Gita.
For his part in the struggle between the Pandavas and their enemies, the Kauravas, Krishna and all his race were cursed by Gandhari, the mother of the slaughtered Kaurava brothers. Thereafter, Krishna's people quarreled among themselves, ultimately exterminating one another in a single day by fighting with uprooted reeds grown from a magical iron powder. Krishna and his brother Bala-Rama alone survived. They retired into a nearby forest, where a serpent crawled out of Bala-Rama's mouth, leaving him dead. The solitary Krishna was then killed by a hunter who mistook him for a deer and shot him with an arrow tipped with the same magical iron that had destroyed Krishna's people.
Although Krishna was earlier celebrated primarily as a heroic figure, in recent centuries he has been adored as a mischievous child and as the lover of the girls who live in the cowherd settlement where he began his earthly career.
The following are the names of various Saligramas.
| Ananta shaligram shila | Matsya shaligram shila |
| Anirudha shaligram shila | Narasimgadeva shaligram shila |
| Chaturmukhi shaligram shila | Narasimha shaligram shila |
| Damodara shaligram shila | Narayana shaligram shila |
| Devi shaligram shila | Padmanabha shaligram shila |
| Gadadhara shaligram shila | Paramesthi shaligram shila |
| Ganesha shaligram shila | Pradyumna shaligram shila |
| Gopala shaligram shila | Purushottama shaligram shila |
| Garuda shaligram shila | Sankarsana shaligram shila |
| Hayagriva shaligram shila | Shesha shaligram shila |
| Hari shaligram shila | Shivalinga shaligram shila |
| Hiranyagarbha shaligram shila | Shridhara shaligram shila |
| Hrishikesha shaligram shila | Sudarsana shaligram shila |
| Janardhana shaligram shila | Trivikrama shaligram shila |
| Kapila shaligram shila | Vaikunta shaligram shila |
| Keshava shaligram shila | Varaha shaligram shila |
| Krishna shaligram shila | Vasudeva shaligram shaligram shila |
| Kurma shaligram shila | Vishnu-panjara shaligram shila |
| Lakshmi Narasimha shaligram shila | Vishnu shaligram shila |
| Lakshmi Narayana shaligram shila | Yogeshvaran shaligram shila |