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  2. Navaratnas - Wikipedia

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    Nauratan / Navaratnas ( Sanskrit dvigu nava-ratna, Sanskrit pronunciation: [nɐʋɐrɐt̪nɐ]) ( transl. Nine gems) or Nauratan was a term applied to a group of nine extraordinary people in an emperor's court in India. The well-known Navaratnas include the ones in the courts of the legendary emperor Vikramaditya, the 16th-century Mughal emperor ...

  3. Farrey - Wikipedia

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    Farrey is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language heist thriller film directed by Soumendra Padhi. It stars Alizeh Agnihotri in the lead role with Ronit Roy, Sahil Mehta, Zeyn Shaw, Prasanna Bisht, Juhi Babbar and Shilpa Shukla. It is an official remake of the 2017 Thai film Bad Genius.

  4. Doha (Indian literature) - Wikipedia

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    Doha is a lyrical verse-format which was extensively used by Indian poets and bards of North India probably since the beginning of the 6th century AD. Dohas of Kabir, Tulsidas, Raskhan, Rahim and the dohas of Nanak called Sakhis are famous. Satasai of Hindi poet, Bihārī, contains many dohas. Dohas are written even now.

  5. Laughter yoga - Wikipedia

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    Laughter yoga. Laughter Yoga ( Hasyayoga) is a global laughter exercise program which includes three elements: 1) Laughter & playfulness 2) yogic breathwork 3) mindfulness meditation [citation needed] Laughter Yoga was introduced in 1995 by family physician Madan Kataria from Mumbai, India and his wife Madhuri. Dr.

  6. Hindi - Wikipedia

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    Modern Standard Hindi, ( आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī) [14] commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language used as the official language of India alongside English. It is written in Devanagari script and is the lingua franca of North India.

  7. Hindi literature - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Punya (Hinduism) - Wikipedia

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    e. Punya ( Sanskrit: पुण्य, romanized : puṇya, lit. 'virtue'), also rendered punyam ( Sanskrit: पुण्यम्, romanized : puṇyam) [1] is a concept in Hinduism with various definitions. It generally refers to virtue or merit, and the activities that allow one to acquire this attribute, in order to achieve liberation from ...

  9. Meditation - Wikipedia

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    Etymology. The English meditation is derived from Old French meditacioun, in turn from Latin meditatio from a verb meditari, meaning "to think, contemplate, devise, ponder". In the Catholic tradition, the use of the term meditatio as part of a formal, stepwise process of meditation goes back to at least the 12th-century monk Guigo II, before which the Greek word theoria was used for the same ...