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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 ...

state of Kerala, India. Performed in the Sanskrit language or an early form ... The word “koodiyattam” is derived from the Sanskrit word Kurd ...

The folklore of India is distinguished from classical Sanskrit literary ... Ancient heroes of the Sanskrit epics, historical figures and modern ...

Krishna appears primarily in Hindu epics such as the Mahabharata, ... is one of the most important Hindu epics along with the Ramayana. ...

Pattupattu (Ten Idylls) and the Five Great Epics. Tolkaappiyam, a commentary ... in the mutual interaction between Sanskrit and Tamil. A number of words ...

draws its subject matter from the Hindu epics chronicling the lives, loves ... and Koodiyattam, another form of Sanskrit ritual dance drama. The ...

Hanuman (from the Sanskrit "having a large jaw") is an important ... Hanuman is an important character in both of the major Hindu epics ...

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 ...

in Sanskrit means "renunciation," "abandonment." ... Sanatana Dharma, the 'danda' (Sanskrit; Devanagari: दंड, ...

In Hinduism, the Mahābhārata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa . With more than 74,000 ...

The Sanskrit word véda "knowledge, wisdom" is derived from ... Monier-Williams (ed.), Monier-Williams Sanskrit Dictionary (Nataraj Books ...

Greek oral tradition, which for centuries preserved the Homeric epics ... were added, ultimately mutated from the Sanskrit Panchatantra. From these ...

===The Epics and The Puranas=== Commentary" on Panini's Sanskrit grammar that devotees of ...

Vaishnavism (Sanskrit for "belonging to Vishnu") is one ... rose to prominence, including the two great Epics and various Puranas and Upanishads ...

In Hinduism, the Rāmāyaṇa is an ancient Sanskrit epic attributed ... As with most traditional epics, it has gone through a long process ...

of thought in their own commentaries. The Sanskrit term for "philosopher ... nonsystematic literature, such as the great epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata ...

actors. A performance usually depicts a story from the Hindu epics ... were an exotic tribe mentioned in the Sanskrit literature of ancient India. ...

the conquest of Licchavi and Anga. The Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata ... All forms of worship were carried out in Sanskrit. Astronomy and mathematics ...

belonged to the Kshatriya caste.From the Sanskrit work Vikramanakadevacharitam ... The Chalukya inscriptions had been written in Kannada and Sanskrit ...

Sanskrit ( sa|संस्कृता वाक् saṃskṛtā vāk ... It appears in pre-Classical form as Vedic Sanskrit, which was a spoken language ...

are the historical context of the Sanskrit epics, such as the Mahabharata ... E.) are the historical context of the Sanskrit epics, such as the Mahabharata ...

literature to flourish in Kannada and Sanskrit. ==History== ... that time in Kannada (Jatakatilaka) and Sanskrit (Gadyakarnamrita) have also ...

This Hindu holy city, described as early as in the Hindu Epics, had been called Ayojjhā (Pali) during the time of Gautama Buddha. Under the ...

The Sanskrit epics Aitareya Brahmana and Mahabharata mention Andhra ... Sanskrit literature and Hindu scriptures highly influenced Telugu ...

to the Brahmana period of Vedic Sanskrit). Historical evidence suggests ... texts were translated from Pali and Sanskrit to Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese ...

in many ancient religious texts, including epics like the Ramayana and Mahabharata ... language of the people (as opposed to Sanskrit)part of a larger Bhakti ...

quot; or "distant." In Sanskrit yava means barley, a plant ... and the arts flourished, and the Hindu epics were translated from Sanskrit ...

John L Brockington, The Sanskrit Epics (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers ... *Brockington, John L. The Sanskrit Epics. Leiden: Brill Academic ...

The Rashtrakuta Dynasty (Sanskrit: राष्ट्रकूट ... important works in Kannada and Sanskrit. Amoghavarsha I emerged ...

an offshoot dating to around 80 C.E. The Sanskrit commentaries of the Digambara ... Māgadhi, but after the Christian era, Sanskrit became more popular. ...

due to which literature in Kannada and Sanskrit flourished. Ninth-century ... and an accomplished poet in Kannada and Sanskrit. He served King Marasimha ...

adopted as the local belief system. Sanskrit became the literary and ... characters did not originate in the Hindu epics, but were added later, possibly ...

known collection of Indian fables. Indian epics such as Krishna Dwaipayana ... * Bidpai (ca. 200 B.C.E.), author of Sanskrit (Hindu) and Pali (Buddhist ...

Tamil literature like Sangam poetry and epics like Silapthigaaram have ... language has been far less influenced by Sanskrit than the other Dravidian ...

have influenced the writing style of Indian epics. Calligraphy in India was ... Lantsa and used to write the original texts of Sanskrit. ...

in many ancient religious texts, including epics like the Ramayana and Mahabharata ... Chaturdandi Prakasika (c. 1635 C.E.) in Sanskrit. Govindacharya expanded ...

Greek speakers. Its equivalent in Sanskrit is the word "Yavana". "Yona" and "Yavana" are both transliterations ...

Other ancient epic poetry includes the Greek epics, Iliad and Odyssey ... Poetry that records historic events in epics, such as Gilgamesh or Ferdowsi ...

The Mahabharata, one of the major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, describes the encounter between the accomplished wrestlers of Bhima and Jarasandha; ...

from the Old Persian word Hindu, from Sanskrit Sindhu, the historic local ... The principal texts of Hinduism (the Vedas), the great Indian epics ...

(meaning "without limits" in Sanskrit) marks what is perhaps the ... eighteenth centuries. While their archaic Sanskrit usages create the impression ...

Ahimsa is a Sanskrit term meaning "nonviolence" or "non ... The Mahabharata, one of the epics of Hinduism, has multiple mentions ...

included study of Punjabi, Braj, Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic languages ... Guru Gobind Singh engaged 52 poets to translate the heroic Sanskrit ...

"Maldives" derives from the Sanskrit maladvipa, meaning "garland ... "Maldives" derives from the Sanskrit maladvipa, meaning "garland ...

languages of Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Sanskrit, while Carnatic music evolved ... Venkateshwara (Vishnu) at Tirupati. A Sanskrit work, Jambavati Kalyanam ...

of lay Tibetan literature which includes epics, poetry, short stories, dance ... Tibetan music often involves complex chants in Tibetan or Sanskrit ...

of Hindu sacred texts are composed in the Sanskrit language. Indeed, much of ... Around 300 B.C.E., the great epics known as the Puranas, which include ...

for at least 9,000 years. Ancient Indian epics such as the Mahabharata mention ... whose rulers' names ended with the Sanskrit suffix malla ("wrestler ...

on the writing system of the ancient Sanskrit language of India. Tibetan ... There are also many historical mythical epics written by high lamas about ...

of the modern European novel include verse epics in the Romance language of ... novelist." On the other hand, verse epics, including the Odyssey and ...

discuss national and social issues, read Hindu epics and crack jokes. Gandhi also taught Patel Sanskrit language. Gandhi's secretary Mahadev Desai ...