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Kamasutra 1.2.1, Translator: Ludo Rocher The Kamasutra is a "sutra"-genre text consisting of intensely condensed, aphoristic verses. Doniger describes them as a "kind of atomic string (thread) of meanings", which are so cryptic that any translation is more like deciphering and filling in the text. Condensing a text into a sutra-genre religious text form makes it easier to remember and transmit ...
Modern Standard Hindi ( आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), [ 9] commonly referred to as Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language written in Devanagari script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North 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] It is used in the Indian subcontinent, and among the Indian and Nepalese diaspora.
Vande Mātaram ( Devanagari: वंदे मातरम् Bengali: বন্দে মাতরম্ Bônde Mātôrôm; transl. I praise you, Motherland) is a poem written in Sanskritised Bengali [ 1][ 2] by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the 1870s. [ 3][ 4] The first two verses of the poem were adopted as the National Song of India in ...
Jai Hind ( Hindi: जय् हिन्द्, IPA: [dʒəj ɦɪnd]) is a salutation and slogan that originally meant "Victory to Hindustan ", [ 1] and in contemporary colloquial usage often means "Long live India" [ 2] or "Salute to India". Coined by Champakaraman Pillai [ 3][ 4] and used during India's independence movement from British rule ...
Devanagari is an Indic script used for many Indo-Aryan languages of North India and Nepal, including Hindi, Marathi and Nepali, which was the script used to write Classical Sanskrit. There are several somewhat similar methods of transliteration from Devanagari to the Roman script (a process sometimes called romanisation ), including the ...
Ghazal. Publication date. 16 August 1904. Muhammad Iqbal, then president of the Muslim League in 1930 and address deliverer. " Sāre Jahān se Accha ", [ a] originally known as " Tarānah-e-Hindi ", [ b] is a children's Hindustani patriotic song written by poet Muhammad Iqbal in the ghazal style of Urdu poetry. [ c] The poem was published in ...
The modern Hindi and Urdu standards are highly mutually intelligible in colloquial form, but use different scripts when written, and have lesser mutually intelligibility in literary forms. The history of Bible translations into Hindi and Urdu is closely linked, with the early translators of the Hindustani language simply producing the same ...