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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
- 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) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- 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) - 23:27, 12 June 2023
- 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 (3,220 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- 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) - 19:40, 29 January 2022
- 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 (2,973 words) - 13:22, 22 January 2024
- 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 ...33 KB (5,198 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
- The Sanskrit word véda "knowledge, wisdom" is derived from ... Monier-Williams (ed.), Monier-Williams Sanskrit Dictionary (Nataraj Books ...32 KB (4,855 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- 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 Rāmāyaṇa is an ancient Sanskrit epic attributed ... As with most traditional epics, it has gone through a long process ...37 KB (6,200 words) - 00:33, 8 December 2022
- 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 (3,133 words) - 22:02, 4 February 2023
- 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
- Sanskrit ( sa|संस्कृता वाक् saṃskṛtā vāk ... It appears in pre-Classical form as Vedic Sanskrit, which was a spoken language ...71 KB (10,080 words) - 03:16, 23 December 2022
- 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 ...50 KB (7,467 words) - 05:25, 5 November 2022
- literature to flourish in Kannada and Sanskrit. ==History== ... that time in Kannada (Jatakatilaka) and Sanskrit (Gadyakarnamrita) have also ...35 KB (5,038 words) - 18:09, 15 March 2023
- 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 ...16 KB (2,296 words) - 07:27, 23 August 2023
- The Sanskrit epics Aitareya Brahmana and Mahabharata mention Andhra ... Sanskrit literature and Hindu scriptures highly influenced Telugu ...30 KB (4,151 words) - 20:00, 26 July 2023
- to the Brahmana period of Vedic Sanskrit). Historical evidence suggests ... texts were translated from Pali and Sanskrit to Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese ...38 KB (5,920 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- 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 ...31 KB (4,712 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
- quot; or "distant." In Sanskrit yava means barley, a plant ... and the arts flourished, and the Hindu epics were translated from Sanskrit ...34 KB (5,087 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- John L Brockington, The Sanskrit Epics (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers ... *Brockington, John L. The Sanskrit Epics. Leiden: Brill Academic ...36 KB (6,032 words) - 22:05, 24 November 2022
- The Rashtrakuta Dynasty (Sanskrit: राष्ट्रकूट ... important works in Kannada and Sanskrit. Amoghavarsha I emerged ...53 KB (7,699 words) - 00:10, 14 November 2023
- an offshoot dating to around 80 C.E. The Sanskrit commentaries of the Digambara ... Māgadhi, but after the Christian era, Sanskrit became more popular. ...28 KB (4,275 words) - 12:42, 6 November 2021
- due to which literature in Kannada and Sanskrit flourished. Ninth-century ... and an accomplished poet in Kannada and Sanskrit. He served King Marasimha ...47 KB (6,741 words) - 17:20, 4 May 2023
- adopted as the local belief system. Sanskrit became the literary and ... characters did not originate in the Hindu epics, but were added later, possibly ...19 KB (2,886 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
- known collection of Indian fables. Indian epics such as Krishna Dwaipayana ... * Bidpai (ca. 200 B.C.E.), author of Sanskrit (Hindu) and Pali (Buddhist ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- Tamil literature like Sangam poetry and epics like Silapthigaaram have ... language has been far less influenced by Sanskrit than the other Dravidian ...56 KB (8,191 words) - 16:28, 13 January 2024
- have influenced the writing style of Indian epics. Calligraphy in India was ... Lantsa and used to write the original texts of Sanskrit. ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- in many ancient religious texts, including epics like the Ramayana and Mahabharata ... Chaturdandi Prakasika (c. 1635 C.E.) in Sanskrit. Govindacharya expanded ...40 KB (6,040 words) - 15:47, 28 November 2023
- Greek speakers. Its equivalent in Sanskrit is the word "Yavana". "Yona" and "Yavana" are both transliterations ...21 KB (3,106 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- Other ancient epic poetry includes the Greek epics, Iliad and Odyssey ... Poetry that records historic events in epics, such as Gilgamesh or Ferdowsi ...69 KB (10,532 words) - 00:11, 5 March 2023
- The Mahabharata, one of the major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, describes the encounter between the accomplished wrestlers of Bhima and Jarasandha; ...26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
- from the Old Persian word Hindu, from Sanskrit Sindhu, the historic local ... The principal texts of Hinduism (the Vedas), the great Indian epics ...64 KB (9,559 words) - 13:04, 4 March 2024
- (meaning "without limits" in Sanskrit) marks what is perhaps the ... eighteenth centuries. While their archaic Sanskrit usages create the impression ...40 KB (6,102 words) - 10:18, 26 January 2023
- Ahimsa is a Sanskrit term meaning "nonviolence" or "non ... The Mahabharata, one of the epics of Hinduism, has multiple mentions ...51 KB (7,370 words) - 02:40, 16 November 2022
- included study of Punjabi, Braj, Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic languages ... Guru Gobind Singh engaged 52 poets to translate the heroic Sanskrit ...43 KB (7,122 words) - 06:18, 10 January 2024
- "Maldives" derives from the Sanskrit maladvipa, meaning "garland ... "Maldives" derives from the Sanskrit maladvipa, meaning "garland ...34 KB (4,966 words) - 06:36, 5 November 2022
- languages of Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Sanskrit, while Carnatic music evolved ... Venkateshwara (Vishnu) at Tirupati. A Sanskrit work, Jambavati Kalyanam ...55 KB (7,789 words) - 20:20, 3 May 2023
- of lay Tibetan literature which includes epics, poetry, short stories, dance ... Tibetan music often involves complex chants in Tibetan or Sanskrit ...39 KB (5,852 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- 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 ...61 KB (9,460 words) - 19:05, 17 March 2022
- for at least 9,000 years. Ancient Indian epics such as the Mahabharata mention ... whose rulers' names ended with the Sanskrit suffix malla ("wrestler ...47 KB (6,833 words) - 16:19, 11 November 2022
- on the writing system of the ancient Sanskrit language of India. Tibetan ... There are also many historical mythical epics written by high lamas about ...35 KB (5,227 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- of the modern European novel include verse epics in the Romance language of ... novelist." On the other hand, verse epics, including the Odyssey and ...82 KB (12,058 words) - 20:51, 27 February 2023
- discuss national and social issues, read Hindu epics and crack jokes. Gandhi also taught Patel Sanskrit language. Gandhi's secretary Mahadev Desai ...64 KB (9,693 words) - 19:34, 15 September 2022