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