Meaning of शिला in English
- The department of science which is concerned with the mineralogical and chemical composition of rocks, and with their classification: lithology.
- A treatise on petrology.
- A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying "Between Scylla and Charybdis," signifying a great peril on either hand.
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