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Alvin J. Johnson's map of Hindostan or British India, 1864. Hindūstān (pronunciation ⓘ) is a historical region, polity, and a name for India, historically used to refer to the northern Indian subcontinent, and used in the modern day to refer to the Republic of India. [1]
This is a List of notable Hindi language poets: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
This is an alphabetical list of notable Indian film actresses. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
It is also a name for a maiden cursed into a dragon in the story of the same name. Lithuanian dragons Slibinas: This dragon is more of a hydra with multiple heads, though sometimes it does appear with one head. Aitvaras: Aitvaras is described as a bird with the appearance of a dragon outdoors. An aitvaras will lodge itself in a house and most ...
The place of its composition is also unclear. The likely candidates are urban centers of north India, alternatively in the eastern urban Pataliputra (now Patna). [20] Vatsyayana Mallanaga is its widely accepted author because his name is embedded in the colophon verse, but little is known about him. [21]
The honorific is incorporated into many place names. A partial list follows: Sriharikota, India; Srimangal, Bangladesh; Srisailam, Andhra Pradesh, a Siva temple, also one of the holiest places of worship for Hindus. Srikakulam, a town in northern Andhra Pradesh. Sri City, an integrated township located on the Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu border.
The kinship terms of Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) differ from the English system in certain respects. [1] In the Hindustani system, kin terms are based on gender, [2] and the difference between some terms is the degree of respect. [3] Moreover, "In Hindi and Urdu kinship terms there is clear distinction between the blood relations and affinal ...
India's University Grants Commission and Ministry of Human Resource Development decided to introduce "Jyotir Vigyan" (i.e. jyotir vijñāna) or "Vedic astrology" as a discipline of study in Indian universities, stating that "vedic astrology is not only one of the main subjects of our traditional and classical knowledge but this is the ...