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单词 shaligram
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shaligramn.

/ˈʃalɡrɑːm/
Forms: Also salgram, saligram, shalgram.
Etymology: < Hindi çālgrām, representing Sanskrit çālagrāma the name of a village where this stone was found. N.E.D. (1913) enters this under the headword shalgram and gives the pronunciation as (ʃa·lgrām) /ˈʃælɡrɑːm/.
An ammonite or other fossil, sacred to Vishnu.
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1784 F. Gladwin tr. A. Allâmî Ayeen Akbery II. 29 Salgram is a black stone which the hindoos hold sacred.
1845 Encycl. Metrop. XV. 193/2 The schistose stones, (sálgráms) containing remains of the cornu ammonis.
1905 J. M. Macphail Kenneth S. Macdonald x. 133 The Shalgram, from the geological point of view, is an ammonite fossil.
1905 J. M. Macphail Kenneth S. Macdonald x. 133 The Shalgram, he explained, was one of the three things essential to daily worship in an orthodox Hindu house.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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