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Hindi is right now the official language in nine states of India— Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh—and the National Capital Territory of Delhi. Post-independence Hindi became the official language of the Central Government of India along with English.
Hindu woman in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh wearing a bindi. A bindi (from Sanskrit bindú meaning "point, drop, dot or small particle") is a coloured dot or, in modern times, a sticker worn on the center of the forehead, originally by Hindus, Jains and Buddhists from the Indian subcontinent.
Etymology and nomenclature Historic Sanskrit manuscripts: a religious text (top), and a medical text In Sanskrit, the verbal adjective sáṃskṛta- is a compound word consisting of sáṃ ('together, good, well, perfected') and kṛta - ('made, formed, work'). It connotes a work that has been "well prepared, pure and perfect, polished, sacred". According to Biderman, the perfection ...
However, by virtue of listening to the Sūryaśataka, the Brahmarakshasa became free from his phantom-form. Mayura was also cured of leprosy by the grace of Lord Surya. Many authors have mentioned similar narrations of the event in their books. The Sūryaśataka contains one hundred verses in praise of the Lord Surya. According to 'Surys Shatak ...
A Jew, from the story of Moses leading the Jewish people out of Egypt in the Book of Exodus. Rootless cosmopolitan (Russian: безродный космополит) Soviet Union: Jews Soviet epithet as an accusation of lack of full allegiance to the Soviet Union. Sheeny Europe: Jews From Yiddish sheyn or German schön meaning 'beautiful'. Shylock
The vagueness of the Brundtland definition of sustainable development has been criticized as follows:: 17 The definition has "opened up the possibility of downplaying sustainability. Hence, governments spread the message that we can have it all at the same time, i.e. economic growth, prospering societies and a healthy environment.
The history of books became an acknowledged academic discipline in the 1980s. Contributions to the field have come from textual scholarship, codicology, bibliography, philology, palaeography, art history, social history and cultural history. Its key purpose is to demonstrate that the book as an object, not just the text contained within it, is ...
Broader canon. Bible portal. v. t. e. The Book of Enoch (also 1 Enoch; [a] Hebrew: סֵפֶר חֲנוֹךְ, Sēfer Ḥănōḵ; Ge'ez: መጽሐፈ ሄኖክ, Maṣḥafa Hēnok) is an ancient Hebrew apocalyptic religious text, ascribed by tradition to the patriarch Enoch who was the father of Methuselah and the great-grandfather of Noah.