Crossword-Solution: LAGR 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The Sâlagrâm is the only stone idol among the Hindoos that is _essentially sacred_, and entitled to divine honours without the ceremonies of consecration.[9] It is everywhere held most sacred.

During the war against Nepâl,[10] Captain B------, who commanded a reconnoitring party from the division in which I served, one day brought back to camp some four or five Sâlagrâms, which he had found at the hut of some priest within the enemy's frontier.

Many people were returning from the ceremonies of the marriage of 'sâlagrâm' with 'Tulasî'; who told me that the concourse had been immense--at least one hundred and fifty thousand; and that the Râjâ had feasted them all for four days during the progress of the ceremonies, but that they were obliged to defray their expenses going and coming, except when they came by special invitation to do honour to the occasion, as in the case of my little friend the Sâgar high priest, Jânkî Sewak.

When shortly afterwards Lagrée died, Garnier naturally assumed the command of the expedition, and he conducted it in safety to the Yang-tsze-Kiang, and thus to the Chinese coast.

Mouhot, and later (in 1868) by Lagrée's expedition, who found it, in spite of the great body of water, impracticable for navigation.