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The Republic of India has two principal official short names, each of which is historically significant, India and Bharat. A third name, Hindustan, is also used commonly when Indians speak among themselves. The usage of "Bhārata", " Hindustān ", or "India" depends on the context and language of conversation.
Pressing hands together with a smile to greet namaste – a common cultural gesture in India. Namaste ( Sanskrit pronunciation: [nɐmɐste:], [1] Devanagari: नमस्ते), sometimes called namaskār and namaskāram, is a customary Hindu [2] [3] [4] manner of respectfully greeting and honouring a person or group, used at any time of day. [5]
India–Japan relations. India–Japan relations ( Hindi: भारत जापान सम्बंध, romanized :Bharat Japan sambandh; Japanese: 日印関係, romanized :Nitchiin kankei) have traditionally been strong. The people of India and Japan have engaged in cultural exchanges, primarily as a result of Buddhism, since ancient times.
Contents. -ji. -ji ( IAST: -jī, Hindustani pronunciation: [dʒiː]) is a gender-neutral honorific used as a suffix in many languages of the Indian subcontinent, [1] [2] such as Hindi, Nepali and Punjabi languages and their dialects prevalent in northern India, north-west and central India. Ji is gender-neutral and can be used for as a term of ...
India has a Greenberg's diversity index of 0.914—i.e. two people selected at random from the country will have different native languages in 91.4% of cases. [11] As per the 2011 Census of India, languages by highest number of speakers are as follows: Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam.
Maya (given name) Maya is an alternate name of Hindu goddess Lakshmi. Maya is a female name in various languages with various meanings. In Sanskrit, for instance, Māyā means "illusion or magic", and is also an alternate name of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi. [1] In the Tupi language, of southern Brazil, it means "mother", while Mayara means ...
Hinduism is a minority religion in Japan mainly followed by the Indian, Sri Lankan and Nepali expatriate residents of Japan, who number about 166,550 people as of 2022. It's also widely integrated into the native Shinto-Buddhist religion which has had a significant impact of Japanese culture; Buddhism is largely related to Hinduism, and most of ...
Italy. Japan. Kiara ( / kiˈɑːrə / kee-AR-ə or / ˈkɪərə / KEER-ə) is a given name with various origins. It may be a variant of the Italian name Chiara, meaning bright, or the Irish name Ciara, meaning dark-haired. [1] In Japan, Kiara is an uncommon name typically given to males; its meaning is dependent upon the characters used to ...