Elements of Hindu Iconography v1.c7.25

v1.c7.25

∗ A good or auspicious *śalagrāma* is one which has a *chakra*, which resembles a *nāga* (cobra) reposing in a spiral; the spirals of the *chakra* in the *śalagrāma* should have in them delicate traceries running across them. Those *śalagrāmas* which are of the size of an *āmalaka* fruit or smaller, are very efficacious. *Śalagrāmas* may be of the following colours: brownish black, green, white, red, blue, dark brown, jet-black, yellow or multicoloured. They are said to belong respectively