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Turbinella pyrum,
common names the
chank s****,
sacred chank or chank, also
known as the
divine conch or
referred to
simply as a conch, is a
species of...
- or "chank s****". One
species in this
genus is the
sacred chank,
Turbinella pyrum; see "Shankha" for the
cultural and
religious use of the s**** of that...
-
conches also
include the
sacred chank or
shankha s**** (
Turbinella pyrum) and
other Turbinella species in the
family Turbinellidae. The Triton's trumpet...
- is
derived from the word shankha, the
divine conch or
sacred conch,
Turbinella pyrum, a
closely related species from the
Indian Ocean.
Xancus angulata (Lightfoot...
- the Great, see
Pecten jacobaeus. In Hinduism, left-handed s**** of
Turbinella pyrum (the
sacred shankha) are
considered to be
sacred to the god Vishnu...
- of a
large sea
snail from the
Indian Ocean (a s**** of the
species Turbinella pyrum), but one that has a rare reverse-turning spiral. The
shankha is held...
-
emblem of
Tranvancore Kingdom (a dextrally-coiled silver)
conch s**** (
Turbinella pyrum) ). The
current emblem of
Kerala was
adopted in 1960 when
Pattom A...
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pervasive sound of Buddhism. This s**** is from a sea
snail species Turbinella pyrum in the
family Turbinellidae. This
species is
found living in the Indian...
-
dates from
approximately the
third millennium BC. The
sacred chank,
Turbinella pyrum, is
known in
India as the
shankha (first
mentioned in the Artharvaveda...
- of
farmed molluscs. Seas****
including the
sacred chank or
shankha Turbinella pyrum; "Triton's trumpet"
Charonia tritonis; and the
queen conch (Aliger...
