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  2. Hindustani profanity - Wikipedia

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    Behenchod (बहनचोद, بہنچود; English: Sisterfucker), also pronounced as behanchod is sometimes abbreviated as BC, is a Hindustani language vulgarism. It is a form of the profanity fuck. The word is considered highly offensive, and is rarely used in literal sense of one who engages in sexual activity with another person's sister ...

  3. Madhushala - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 81-216-0125-8. Followed by. Madhubala. Madhushala ( Hindi: मधुशाला) ( The Tavern/The House of Wine) is a book of 135 "quatrains": verses of four lines ( Ruba'i) by Hindi poet and writer Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907–2003). The highly metaphorical work is still celebrated for its deeply Vedantic and Sufi incantations and ...

  4. Lal Kitab - Wikipedia

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    Lal Kitab ( Hindi: लाल किताब, Urdu: لال کتاب, literally Red Book) is a set of five books on Vedic astrology and palmistry, written in Hindi and later, in the Urdu script too. [1] Poetic verses with philosophy and hidden nuances form the core farmanns or upaya (remedy recommended) of the book. It has led to field of ...

  5. Hindi Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Many Hindi speakers with Internet use English Wikipedia instead. Given the great geographic spread of the Hindi language, the contributors to the Hindi project live in various areas around the country. There are also prolific users whose native language is not Hindi, as Hindi is a government language in India alongside English.

  6. Jain literature - Wikipedia

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    A 12th-century manuscript of Hemachandra 's Yogaśāstra in Sanskrit. The text is notable for using 1 mm miniaturized Devanagari script. Jain literature ( Sanskrit: जैन साहित्य) refers to the literature of the Jain religion. It is a vast and ancient literary tradition, which was initially transmitted orally.

  7. List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Hindi - Wikipedia

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    List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Hindi. Sahitya Akademi Award is given each year, since 1955, by Sahitya Akademi (India's National Academy of Letters), to writers and their works, for their outstanding contribution to the upliftment of Indian literature and Hindi literature in particular. No Award was conferred in 1962.

  8. Shad-darshana Darpana - Wikipedia

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    Shad-darshana Darpana. Shad-darshana Darpana ( IAST: Ṣaḍ-darśana-darpaṇa, English titles: Mirror of the Six Schools and A Rational Refutation of the Hindu Philosophical Systems) is an 1860 Hindi -language book written in Varanasi by Nehemiah Goreh, a Hindu convert to Christianity. It is a critique of the six orthodox schools of the Hindu ...

  9. 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 ...