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- Menander I Soter, (The Saviour), known as Milinda in Indian sources, was one of the Indo-Greek rulers in northern India from c. 155 B.C.E. to ...28 KB (4,241 words) - 04:28, 9 November 2022
- hymns of the Rig Veda (the holy book of the Indo-Aryans) meant any supernatural spirit—good or bad. Hence, even some of the devas (demigods), especially ...32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
- ritual strongly resemble those of the Vedic Indo-Aryans and the pre-Zoroastrian Iranians. Kalash mythology and folklore has been compared to that of ...33 KB (5,092 words) - 07:01, 28 February 2023
- The swastika (from Sanskrit: svástika sa|स्वस्तिक ) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right ...40 KB (5,959 words) - 00:36, 27 February 2023
- Zoroaster (Greek Ζωροάστρης, Zōroastrēs) or Zarathushtra (Avestan: Zaraθuštra), also referred to as Zartosht ( زرتشت ...25 KB (3,791 words) - 06:11, 13 June 2023
- Literature in Sanskrit, the classical language of India, represents a continuous cultural tradition from the time of the Vedas in the second ...19 KB (2,849 words) - 03:17, 23 December 2022
- The Mongol invasions of Korea (1231 - 1273) consisted of a series of campaigns by the Mongol Empire against Korea, then known as Goryeo, from ...9 KB (1,252 words) - 19:58, 9 November 2022
- A ganachakra (Sanskrit: gaṇacakra, or 'gathering circle'; Tibetan: tshogs kyi 'khor lo), also known as tsog, ganapuja, chakrapuja ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 04:22, 18 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology [[File:Human migrations and mitochondrial haplogroups.PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- Gandhāra is the name of an ancient, extinct kingdom once located in north-western India in what is now Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. Found ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- Gandharvas (from the Sanskrit: गंधर्व, gandharva, possibly meaning "fragrances") refers to a group of low-ranking male ...9 KB (1,445 words) - 07:26, 2 April 2008
- Ladakh ( t=ལ་དྭགས་|script=yes|w=la-dwags , Ladakhi lad̪ɑks , Hindi: लद्दाख़, Hindi ləd̪.d̪ɑːx , Urdu: لدّاخ; ...43 KB (6,368 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- Field Marshal Muhammad Ayub Khan GCMG, MBE, Hilal-i-Jurat, NPk, (May 14, 1907 – April 19, 1974) was a Field Marshal during the mid-1960s, and ...18 KB (2,831 words) - 14:50, 7 February 2023
- Operation Gibraltar, the name given to Pakistan's failed plan to infiltrate the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region in north-western India ...17 KB (2,428 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- Venus was a major Roman goddess principally associated with love, beauty and fertily, as well as ploughlands and gardens. She was considered ...13 KB (1,985 words) - 19:28, 14 November 2022
- In Greek mythology, Uranus is the personification of the sky and the very first king of the gods. He was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- The languages of India primarily belong to two major linguistic families, Indo-European (whose branch Indo-Aryan is spoken by about 75 percent ...30 KB (4,092 words) - 06:53, 4 March 2023
- Goose (plural geese) is the common name for any member of a variety of species of wild or domesticated large waterbirds in the family Anatidae ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 01:17, 5 March 2021
- The Buddha most commonly refers to Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit; Pali: Siddhāttha Gotama), also called Shakyamuni (“sage of the Shakyas,” ...39 KB (6,288 words) - 18:32, 22 November 2023
- "Yona" is a Pali word used in ancient India to designate Greek speakers. Its equivalent in Sanskrit is the word "Yavana" ...21 KB (3,106 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
