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  2. Tamil language - Wikipedia

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    Tamil script evolved from Tamil Brahmi, and later, the vatteluttu script was used until the current script was standardized. The language has a distinct grammatical structure, with agglutinative morphology that allows for complex word formations. Tamil is predominantly spoken in Tamil Nadu, India, and the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri ...

  3. Indian honorifics - Wikipedia

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    With the expansion of Indosphere cultural influence of Greater India, [3] through transmission of Hinduism in Southeast Asia [4] [5] [6] and the Silk Road transmission of Buddhism [7] [8] leading to Indianization of Southeast Asia with non-Indian southeast Asian native Indianized kingdoms [9] adopting Sanskritization [10] of their languages and titles as well as ongoing historic expansion of ...

  4. Sahib - Wikipedia

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    Sahib or Saheb (/ ˈ s ɑː h ɪ b /; Arabic: صاحب) is an Arabic title meaning 'companion'. It was historically used for the first caliph Abu Bakr in the Quran.. As a loanword, Sahib has passed into several languages, including Persian, Kurdish, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, Tajik, Crimean Tatar, [1] Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Pashto, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Rohingya and Somali.

  5. Konkani language - Wikipedia

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    Konkani [note 3] (Devanagari: कोंकणी, Romi: Konknni, Kannada: ಕೊಂಕಣಿ, [citation needed] Malayalam: കൊങ്കണി [citation needed], Perso-Arabic: کونکنی [citation needed], IAST: Kōṅkaṇī, IPA:) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Konkani people, primarily in the Konkan region, along the western coast of India.

  6. Sutra - Wikipedia

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    [1] [12] The word is related to sūci (Sanskrit: सूचि) meaning "needle, list", [13] and sūnā (Sanskrit: सूना) meaning "woven". [ 1 ] In the context of literature, sūtra means a distilled collection of syllables and words, any form or manual of "aphorism, rule, direction" hanging together like threads with which the teachings ...

  7. Mashallah - Wikipedia

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    Mashallah in Arabic calligraphy. Mashallah or Ma Sha Allah or Masha Allah or Ma Shaa Allah (Arabic: مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّٰهُ, romanized: mā shāʾa -llāh u) [note 1] is an Arabic phrase that literally translates to 'God has willed it', implying that something has happened, generally used to positively denote something of greatness or beauty.

  8. Svaha - Wikipedia

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    Svaha (Sanskrit: स्वाहा, IAST: Svāhā), also referred to as Manyanti, is the Hindu goddess of sacrifices featured in the Vedas. [4] She is the consort of Agni, and the daughter of either Daksha or Brihaspati, depending on the literary tradition.

  9. Prasada - Wikipedia

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    Naivedya offered to Radha Krishna in Sri Maya Chandrodaya Mandir in Mayapur, India. Prasāda (Sanskrit pronunciation: [pɽɐsaːdɐ], Sanskrit: प्रसाद), prasadam or prasad is a religious offering in Hinduism. Most often Prasada is vegetarian food especially cooked for devotees after praise and thanksgiving to a god.