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Swami Vivekananda (IAST: Svāmī Vivekānanda ; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world, and the father of modern Indian nationalism who is credited with raising interfaith ...
Modern Standard Hindi ( Hindi: आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, romanized : Ādhunik Mānak Hindī ), [14] commonly referred to as Hindi (Hindi: हिन्दी, [a] Hindī ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in North India, and serves as the lingua franca of the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern ...
Vedic Mathematics is a book written by Bharati Krishna Tirtha, first published in 1965. It contains a list of mathematical techniques which were falsely claimed to contain advanced mathematical knowledge. [1] The book was posthumously published under its deceptive title by editor V. S. Agrawala, [2] who noted in the foreword that the claim of ...
Synopsis. Ganesha writes the Mahabharata upon Vyasa's dictation. The core story of the work is that of a dynastic struggle for the throne of Hastinapura, the kingdom ruled by the Kuru clan. The two collateral branches of the family that participate in the struggle are the Kaurava and the Pandava.
Google Translate is a web-based free-to-user translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [11] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation service. [11] The input text had to be translated into English first before ...
Biography Youth and education House of birth in Brunswick (destroyed in World War II) Caricature of Abraham Gotthelf Kästner by Gauss (1795) Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was born on 30 April 1777 in Brunswick (Braunschweig) in the Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (now part of Germany's federal state Lower Saxony), to a family of lower social status.
New Delhi is the largest commercial city in northern India. It has an estimated net State Domestic Product (FY 2010) of ₹1,595 billion (US$20 billion) in nominal terms and ~ ₹6,800 billion (US$85 billion) in PPP terms. [96] As of 2013, the per capita income of Delhi was Rs. 230000, second highest in India after Goa.
Nadan (subcaste) Nadans (also referred as Nelamaikkarar) are a small endogamous group of aristocratic Nadars from the regions south of the Thamirabarani River in the present-day state of Tamil Nadu, India. They were hereditary tax collectors during the Nayak and Pandyan rule and also served as petty lords under the poligars.