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Dear Sri Anbil:
  Where does one find the size restrictions on Saaligramam for worship?
  Why is it that Saligramams have to come from the Riverbed of GanTaki?
  Neelameggham
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SrI:
Dear Sri neelamegham

Saalagraama is the one among the eight swayam vyaktha kshethrams. Of the swayam 
vyakhtha sthalams, Saalagramam is said to be the most important. It is 60 miles 
west of Kathmandu and is on the bank of thr river Gandaki. This is on the way 
to Mukthee Narayana khsethram which is 100 miles off. 

Why this river?

The Gandaka rises in the Saptha Gandaki or Davalagiri range of the Himalayas 
which is the southern boundary of Central Tibet, and enters the plains at a 
spot, called Tribent Ghat. This source of the river is not far from Saalagrama 
which was the hermitage of Bharatha and Pulaha. The temple of Mukthinatha 
[Sriman Narayanan] is on the south of Saalagramam. Hence the river is called 
also Saalagrami and Narayani.. 

The real and most expensive Saalgrama are found only in one place at the bottm 
of the Gandaki River, in Nepal, one of the main tributaries of the Sacred 
Ganges. Some of them are perforated by nature along with their axis; others 
have all sorts of figures similar to carvings on them, such as Sudharsana or 
chakra.

the formulation is attributed by students of natural science to some species of 
fish. the fish it is said, selects a small stone, nestles up to it closely and 
then begins to spin, a nest or a shell for itself, the material for which it 
emits like a spider out of its own organism. Having been imeersed in the shell 
for sometime and feeling the tediuosness of solitude the fish breaks the shell 
and swims away; the shila and shell then thus turn into Saalagrama.  

Agamas and Saasthras say that Lord VishNu is dwelling in these Saalagrama 
silas. 

This is the extract from english translation written in Sri Madhuranthakam 
Swami malar [Sri madhurakusumaanjali]   
Regards
Namo Narayana
dAsan madhavakkannan




 
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