Guest guest Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 dear friends shivapurana narrates the story behind the holy shalagrama shilas in the book rudra samhita, fifth chapter as follows: tulasi, daughter of dharmadhvaja marries sankhachooda, son of dhambha. in his previous birth he was sudama, a comrade of krishna. due to the curse of radha, sudama becomes a daanava and is born as sankhachooda. while sankhachooda was busy fighting with shiva, it was mentioned by brahma that as long as sankhachooda wears the divine armour and as long as his wife maintains the marital fidelity, sankhachooda has no death or oldage. then lord vishnu approaches sankhachooda in the disguise of an old brahmin and seek this armour as alms. sankhachooda, truthful of his word to the brahmin gives away the protective armour to vishnu in disguise. after snatching this armour by deception, vishnu approaches tulasi in the guise of sankhachooda and have sex with tulasi, after which act tulasi realises that she was enjoyed deceptively by vishnu and gives a curse to vishnu that since he outraged her modesty ruthlessly like a rock without any offence of her, he would become a rock. then shiva grants a boon to tulasi that her body would become sacred river gandaki and the holy basil plant by her name would be the most holiest of all plants. as the presiding diety of this plant, tulasi will assume a divine form and is forever in the company of lord vishnu. vishnu will assume the form of a rock on the banks of gandaki river and crores of terrible sharptoothed germs shall penetrate and erode the rock and carve rings on it and these pieces shall be known as shalagrama rocks and meritorious of worship. differentiated by the rings, they shall be known as lakshminarayana etc. lord shiva also states that these shalagrama shilas signify vishnu's contact with tulasi and further states that if anyone plucks the leaves of tulasi lying on the shalagrama, he will be separated from his wife in the next birth. if anyone plucks tulasi leaves without using conch, he will become a widower and a chronic patient for seven births. he who keeps shalagrama, tulasi and sankha in one place, will be a favourite of vishnu. after narrating this story sanatkumara says that vishnu has become a rock and germs make different kinds of holes therein and the pieces that fall into the water are highly meritorious as shalagramas. those that remain on the dry land are known as pingalas and are harmful. the above story in succinct is taken from the shivapuarana, four volumes published by motilalbanarsidas. this particular story appears in second volume pages 973 to 978. with best wishes and blessings pandit arjun www.rudraksharemedy.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 I thought shiva puran was written even before dwapar yuga. If sudhama has taken rebirth then the time period changes to kaliyuga because by the time krishna left, kali was already started. Please clarify. panditarjun2004 <panditarjun2004 vedic astrology Monday, January 21, 2008 10:44:17 PM [vedic astrology] significance of shalagrama shilas dear friends shivapurana narrates the story behind the holy shalagrama shilas in the book rudra samhita, fifth chapter as follows: tulasi, daughter of dharmadhvaja marries sankhachooda, son of dhambha. in his previous birth he was sudama, a comrade of krishna. due to the curse of radha, sudama becomes a daanava and is born as sankhachooda. while sankhachooda was busy fighting with shiva, it was mentioned by brahma that as long as sankhachooda wears the divine armour and as long as his wife maintains the marital fidelity, sankhachooda has no death or oldage. then lord vishnu approaches sankhachooda in the disguise of an old brahmin and seek this armour as alms. sankhachooda, truthful of his word to the brahmin gives away the protective armour to vishnu in disguise. after snatching this armour by deception, vishnu approaches tulasi in the guise of sankhachooda and have sex with tulasi, after which act tulasi realises that she was enjoyed deceptively by vishnu and gives a curse to vishnu that since he outraged her modesty ruthlessly like a rock without any offence of her, he would become a rock. then shiva grants a boon to tulasi that her body would become sacred river gandaki and the holy basil plant by her name would be the most holiest of all plants. as the presiding diety of this plant, tulasi will assume a divine form and is forever in the company of lord vishnu. vishnu will assume the form of a rock on the banks of gandaki river and crores of terrible sharptoothed germs shall penetrate and erode the rock and carve rings on it and these pieces shall be known as shalagrama rocks and meritorious of worship. differentiated by the rings, they shall be known as lakshminarayana etc. lord shiva also states that these shalagrama shilas signify vishnu's contact with tulasi and further states that if anyone plucks the leaves of tulasi lying on the shalagrama, he will be separated from his wife in the next birth. if anyone plucks tulasi leaves without using conch, he will become a widower and a chronic patient for seven births. he who keeps shalagrama, tulasi and sankha in one place, will be a favourite of vishnu. after narrating this story sanatkumara says that vishnu has become a rock and germs make different kinds of holes therein and the pieces that fall into the water are highly meritorious as shalagramas. those that remain on the dry land are known as pingalas and are harmful. the above story in succinct is taken from the shivapuarana, four volumes published by motilalbanarsidas. this particular story appears in second volume pages 973 to 978. with best wishes and blessings pandit arjun www.rudraksharemedy .com ______________________________\ ____ Never miss a thing. Make your home page. http://www./r/hs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 Well....it is said that all puranas were written by Great sage Ved Vyasa after Mahabharat. For me the point of contention is about Sankhachooda, if he is sudama in previous birth then Sankhchooda might well been born in Kaliyuga itself i.e. after Lord Krishna left. Bharat Varma <ffmbvarma vedic astrology Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:16:45 PM Re: [vedic astrology] significance of shalagrama shilas I thought shiva puran was written even before dwapar yuga. If sudhama has taken rebirth then the time period changes to kaliyuga because by the time krishna left, kali was already started. Please clarify. panditarjun2004 <panditarjun2004@ > vedic astrology Monday, January 21, 2008 10:44:17 PM [vedic astrology] significance of shalagrama shilas dear friends shivapurana narrates the story behind the holy shalagrama shilas in the book rudra samhita, fifth chapter as follows: tulasi, daughter of dharmadhvaja marries sankhachooda, son of dhambha. in his previous birth he was sudama, a comrade of krishna. due to the curse of radha, sudama becomes a daanava and is born as sankhachooda. while sankhachooda was busy fighting with shiva, it was mentioned by brahma that as long as sankhachooda wears the divine armour and as long as his wife maintains the marital fidelity, sankhachooda has no death or oldage. then lord vishnu approaches sankhachooda in the disguise of an old brahmin and seek this armour as alms. sankhachooda, truthful of his word to the brahmin gives away the protective armour to vishnu in disguise. after snatching this armour by deception, vishnu approaches tulasi in the guise of sankhachooda and have sex with tulasi, after which act tulasi realises that she was enjoyed deceptively by vishnu and gives a curse to vishnu that since he outraged her modesty ruthlessly like a rock without any offence of her, he would become a rock. then shiva grants a boon to tulasi that her body would become sacred river gandaki and the holy basil plant by her name would be the most holiest of all plants. as the presiding diety of this plant, tulasi will assume a divine form and is forever in the company of lord vishnu. vishnu will assume the form of a rock on the banks of gandaki river and crores of terrible sharptoothed germs shall penetrate and erode the rock and carve rings on it and these pieces shall be known as shalagrama rocks and meritorious of worship. differentiated by the rings, they shall be known as lakshminarayana etc. lord shiva also states that these shalagrama shilas signify vishnu's contact with tulasi and further states that if anyone plucks the leaves of tulasi lying on the shalagrama, he will be separated from his wife in the next birth. if anyone plucks tulasi leaves without using conch, he will become a widower and a chronic patient for seven births. he who keeps shalagrama, tulasi and sankha in one place, will be a favourite of vishnu. after narrating this story sanatkumara says that vishnu has become a rock and germs make different kinds of holes therein and the pieces that fall into the water are highly meritorious as shalagramas. those that remain on the dry land are known as pingalas and are harmful. the above story in succinct is taken from the shivapuarana, four volumes published by motilalbanarsidas. this particular story appears in second volume pages 973 to 978. with best wishes and blessings pandit arjun www.rudraksharemedy .com ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _ Never miss a thing. Make your home page. http://www.. com/r/hs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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