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  2. Mehndi - Wikipedia

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    A Bengali bride in London with hands decorated with mehndi and bangles. Mehndi applied on the palms. Mehndi applied on the backs of the hand. Mehndi (pronunciation ⓘ) is a form of temporary skin decoration using a paste created with henna. In the West, mehndi is commonly known as henna tattoo, although it is not a permanent tattoo.

  3. Devanagari - Wikipedia

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    Devanagari used to write Mahl dialect of Dhivehi uses nukta on च़, त़, द़, ल़, श़, स़, ह़ to represent other Perso-Arabic phonemes (see Maldivian writing systems#Devanagari script for Mahl). Sindhi 's and Saraiki 's implosives are accommodated with a line attached below: ॻ [ɠə], ॼ [ʄə], ॾ [ɗə], ॿ [ɓə].

  4. Hindi - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), [ 9 ] commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India.

  5. Hindi literature - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Hindi literature (Hindi: हिन्दी साहित्य, hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Hindi languages which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa like Awadhi, and Marwari languages. Hindi literature is composed in three broad styles ...

  6. Official scripts of India - Wikipedia

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    Being the official script for Hindi, Devanagari is officially used in the Union Government of India as well as several Indian states where Hindi is an official language, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and the Indian union territories of Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Dadra and Nagar Haveli ...

  7. List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Hindi - Wikipedia

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    Archived from the original on 25 January 2009. Retrieved 27 June 2009. ^ "Poet Kailash Vajpeyi honoured with Sahitya Akademi award". The Times of India. 24 December 2009. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012. ^ "Uday Prakash, M P Veerendra Kumar among Sahitya Akademi Award winners". Net Indian. 21 December 2010.

  8. List of Hindi authors - Wikipedia

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    Amar Goswami (1945–2012), Hindi author and journalist. Amir Khusro (1253–1325 AD), author of pahelis and mukris in the "Hindavi" dialect. Acharya Ramlochan Saran (1889–1971), author, grammarian and publisher. Abid Surti (1935–), author. Acharya Chatursen Shastri (1891–1960) Amrita Pritam (1919–2005) Asghar Wajahat (1946-) Hindi ...

  9. Om mani padme hum - Wikipedia

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    Om mani padme hum. Oṃ maṇi padme hūm̐[1] (Sanskrit: ॐ मणिपद्मे हूँ, IPA: [õːː mɐɳɪpɐdmeː ɦũː]) is the six-syllabled Sanskrit mantra particularly associated with the four-armed Shadakshari form of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion. It first appeared in the Mahayana Kāraṇḍavyūhasūtra ...