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- with the Vedas, and continues with the Sanskrit Epics of Iron Age India; the ... derived from or strongly influenced by Sanskrit, the language and its literature ...19 KB (2,849 words) - 03:17, 23 December 2022
- and bravery was much celebrated in Sanskrit works like the Kathasaritsagara ... various versions are observed. Some Sanskrit epics and puranas indicate ...19 KB (2,947 words) - 06:40, 4 February 2025
- state of Kerala, India. Performed in the Sanskrit language or an early form ... The word “koodiyattam†is derived from the Sanskrit word Kurd ...19 KB (2,773 words) - 22:37, 3 March 2025
- The folklore of India is distinguished from classical Sanskrit literary ... Ancient heroes of the Sanskrit epics, historical figures and modern ...32 KB (4,865 words) - 07:00, 5 September 2022
- Krishna appears primarily in Hindu epics such as the Mahabharata, ... is one of the most important Hindu epics along with the Ramayana. ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 23:11, 3 March 2025
- Pattupattu (Ten Idylls) and the Five Great Epics. Tolkaappiyam, a commentary ... in the mutual interaction between Sanskrit and Tamil. A number of words ...33 KB (4,960 words) - 00:53, 21 April 2023
- draws its subject matter from the Hindu epics chronicling the lives, loves ... and Koodiyattam, another form of Sanskrit ritual dance drama. The ...22 KB (3,203 words) - 01:38, 3 March 2025
- Hanuman (from the Sanskrit "having a large jaw") is an important ... Hanuman is an important character in both of the major Hindu epics ...19 KB (3,063 words) - 05:09, 25 June 2024
- from ca. 320 B.C.E.) the classical age of Sanskrit literature, and the Middle ... for several millennia, deriving their Sanskrit language from earlier Indo ...25 KB (3,858 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- in Sanskrit means "renunciation," "abandonment." ... Sanatana Dharma, the 'danda' (Sanskrit; Devanagari: दंड, ...19 KB (2,946 words) - 20:30, 17 July 2024
- In Hinduism, the MahÄbhÄrata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the RÄmÄyaṇa . With more than 74,000 ...33 KB (5,174 words) - 07:41, 27 March 2025
- The Sanskrit word véda "knowledge, wisdom" is derived from ... Monier-Williams (ed.), Monier-Williams Sanskrit Dictionary (Nataraj Books ...32 KB (4,872 words) - 19:22, 18 March 2026
- Greek oral tradition, which for centuries preserved the Homeric epics ... were added, ultimately mutated from the Sanskrit Panchatantra. From these ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- ===The Epics and The Puranas=== Commentary" on Panini's Sanskrit grammar that devotees of ...34 KB (5,141 words) - 19:47, 14 April 2020
- Vaishnavism (Sanskrit for "belonging to Vishnu") is one ... rose to prominence, including the two great Epics and various Puranas and Upanishads ...42 KB (6,471 words) - 14:11, 3 May 2023
- In Hinduism, the RÄmÄyaṇa is an ancient Sanskrit epic attributed ... As with most traditional epics, it has gone through a long process ...37 KB (6,200 words) - 16:15, 20 May 2026
- of thought in their own commentaries. The Sanskrit term for "philosopher ... nonsystematic literature, such as the great epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata ...22 KB (3,137 words) - 17:18, 28 November 2024
- actors. A performance usually depicts a story from the Hindu epics ... were an exotic tribe mentioned in the Sanskrit literature of ancient India. ...30 KB (4,418 words) - 10:04, 22 May 2023
- the conquest of Licchavi and Anga. The Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata ... All forms of worship were carried out in Sanskrit. Astronomy and mathematics ...20 KB (3,019 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- belonged to the Kshatriya caste.From the Sanskrit work Vikramanakadevacharitam ... The Chalukya inscriptions had been written in Kannada and Sanskrit ...41 KB (5,966 words) - 01:14, 4 December 2023
