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- Models of the Indo-Aryan migration discusses scenarios of prehistoric migrations of the early Indo-Aryans to their historically attested areas ...26 KB (3,877 words) - 22:31, 5 February 2023
- The Indo-Greek Kingdom (or sometimes Graeco-Indian Kingdom covered various parts of the northwest and northern Indian subcontinent from 180 B ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- Since the creation of the separate states of India and Pakistan in 1947, the two neighboring nations have engaged in four wars. The first conflict ...51 KB (7,827 words) - 00:17, 28 July 2023
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- Models of the Indo-Aryan migration discusses scenarios of prehistoric migrations of the early Indo-Aryans to their historically attested areas ...26 KB (3,877 words) - 22:31, 5 February 2023
- Some scholars believe the Indo-Aryans moved into an already Dravidian ... * Erdosy, George. The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language ...24 KB (3,241 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- the Soma: The botanical evidence in The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia ... and archaeological evidence in The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia ...14 KB (2,226 words) - 01:08, 4 February 2023
- Sogdiana or Sogdia ( Суғд - Old Persian: Sughuda; سغد ; 粟特 - Sùtè) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a province ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- Ahura Mazda is the supreme divinity of the Zoroastrian faith, which is called by its adherents Mazdayasna (meaning "the worship of Mazda ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 16:30, 30 December 2021
- Indra is the most important deity in ancient Vedic Hinduism and the supreme deva (god) of the Rigveda scripture. Known as the god of storms and ...18 KB (2,879 words) - 20:00, 4 March 2024
- split may have occurred between the early Indo-Aryans and Iranians. (The cognate word in Avestan is daēva and in Zoroastrianism ahuras are supreme ...16 KB (2,600 words) - 10:11, 29 January 2024
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (later: von) Schlegel (March 10, 1772 - January 12, 1829) was a German poet, critic and scholar, and a founder of German ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
- Dasa (Sanskrit for "servant") is a Hindu term with two primary usages: Originally, "Dasa" denoted enemies of the ancient ...15 KB (2,317 words) - 20:43, 19 May 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Linguistics {{Infobox Writing system |name=Linear A |type=Undeciphered |typedesc=(likely Syllabic ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 07:40, 9 March 2023
- The Vedic Period (or Vedic Age) (c. 1500 – c. 500 B.C.E.) is the period in the history of India during which the Vedas, the oldest sacred ...25 KB (3,858 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- Marlin is the common name for several, large marine billfish in the family Istiophoridae of the bony fish order Perciformes. As with the other ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 16:04, 6 November 2022
- The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), was an ancient civilization thriving along the lower Indus River and the Ghaggar River-Hakra River in what ...32 KB (5,016 words) - 21:11, 22 March 2024
- * Erdosy, George. 1995. The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity. Indian philology and South Asian studies ...37 KB (5,773 words) - 19:19, 9 November 2022
- The Greek conquests of India took place in the years before the Common Era, and a rich trade flourished between India and Greece, especially ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 15:30, 28 January 2023
- Hinduism is an umbrella term for various religious traditions that originated in India, and now are practiced all around the world, though more ...19 KB (2,973 words) - 13:22, 22 January 2024
- known as Vedic Aryans, a subgroup of the Indo-Aryans) and their enemies, the ... hark back to clashes between the early Indo-Aryans with the BMAC in what ...41 KB (6,083 words) - 01:40, 15 December 2022
- The Vatsa (a branch of the early Indo-Aryans) were rulers of Hastinapur (near present day Delhi), and they established the town of Kaushambi ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 13:37, 17 May 2021
- The Sunga Empire (or Shunga Empire) is a Magadha dynasty that controlled North-central and Eastern India as well as parts of the northwest (now ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:32, 26 February 2023
- Category:Linguists and lexicographers Category:Biography Jones, William (philologist) [[Image:Sir William Jones.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Sir William ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- 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
- In Greek mythology, Zeus was the highest ranking god among the pantheon of Olympian gods. He held jurisdiction over Mount Olympus, as well as ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- Fiji, officially the Republic of the Fiji Islands, is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Vanuatu, west of Tonga and south of ...27 KB (3,980 words) - 19:46, 26 March 2024
- The historic Philistines (Hebrew: פלשתים, plishtim) were a people who inhabited the southern coast of Canaan around the time of the arrival ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- The Three Jewels (also called the Three Treasures or Triple Gem) are three religious vows that are made in the process of becoming a Buddhist ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 23:03, 30 April 2023
- Taxila is an important archaeological site in Pakistan containing the ruins of the Gandhāran city of Takshashila (also Takkasila or Taxila) ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- In Greek mythology, Atlas (Eng. /'æt ləs/ Gk. Ἄτλας) was the primordial Titan who supported the heavens. The Titans (Greek: ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- In Greek mythology, Cronus (Ancient Greek: Κρόνος, Krónos), also called Cronos or Kronos, was the leader of the first generation of Titans ...12 KB (1,860 words) - 20:30, 3 June 2020
- The Indo-Greek Kingdom (or sometimes Graeco-Indian Kingdom covered various parts of the northwest and northern Indian subcontinent from 180 B ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- The Dharmakāya (lit. Truth Body or Reality Body) is a central concept in Mahayana Buddhism forming part of the Trikaya doctrine that was first ...13 KB (2,027 words) - 10:18, 29 January 2024
- The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, marking the region where South Asia converges with Central ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
