Krishna‚ a Hindu god‚ was believed to rid the earth of evil‚ is considered the eighth avatar or the physical form of the god Vishnu. The story of how Krishna‚ the Hindu god of love and compassion‚ was born is woven through many Hinduism’s most sacred texts. As a child‚ Krishna was adored for his pranks. Krishna is known by many other names such as‚ Govinda‚ Mukunda‚ Madhusudhana‚ and Vasudeva. As a teenager‚ he was re-known as a lover. The sound of his flute would bring all the girls to the yard
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nepal Nepal (Listeni/nɛˈpɔːl/ ne-PAWL[5] Nepali: नेपाल [neˈpal] ( listen))‚ officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal‚[6] is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. With an area of 147‚181 square kilometres (56‚827 sq mi) and a population of approximately 27 million (and nearly 2 million absentee workers living abroad)‚[2] Nepal is the world’s 93rd largest country by land mass[7] and the 41st most populous country. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by
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Medicine River chronicles the lives of a group of contemporary First Nations people in Western Canada. The novel is divided into eighteen short chapters. The story is recounted by the protagonist‚ Will‚ in an amiable‚ conversational fashion‚ with frequent flashbacks to earlier portions of his life. In the novel‚ Medicine River‚ Thomas King creates a story of a little community to reflect the whole native nation. A simple return of Will ’s makes the little town seem to be more colourful. "Medicine
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1. Alexander the Great typically ruled through local hierarchies. 2. Which of the following explain why Alexander failed to carry the empire as far as the Gangzes River? Because his troops mutinied. 3. Which two leaders built an empire from Alexander’s Empire? Ptolemy and Seleucus. 4. Which of the following empires began as city-states? Mesopotamia and Greece. 5. Alexander the Great extended his empire as far east as the Indus River. 6. The city was Rome was found in 753
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IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) e-ISSN : 2279-0837‚ p-ISSN : 2279-0845 PP 34-36 www.iosrjournals.org Socio cultural factors in the play of Wole Soyinka’s the Lion and the Jewel and Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana: a Comparative Study K. Saravanan‚ PhD Research Scholar‚ Government Arts College‚ Coimbatore I. Introduction The word ―culture‖ itself is so difficult to pin down; ―cultural studies‖ is hard to define. According to Elaine Showalter ―cultural is a model of feminine
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Is Hinduism monotheistic‚ or polytheistic? Polytheism is the belief in‚ and worship of more than one god. In monotheism‚ there is belief in and worship of only one god that is a separate entity. I have come to the conclusion that Hinduism is neither‚ but monistic. On a lower level of truth‚ there are many different gods and goddesses that are distinct in Hinduism. However‚ on a higher level of truth‚ Hindu’s believe “you and I and God [are] all one-and-the-same in the end” (Course Reader‚ p. 17)
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Tour Dutt was born on March 4‚ 1856 in Bengal and she died on August 30‚ 1877‚ in the prime of her youth‚ at 21. She is often called the Keats of the Indo-English literature for more than one reason - her meteoric rise on and disappearance from the literary firmament‚ as also for the quality of her poetry. James Darmesteter pays a befitting tribute to her‚ "The daughter of Bengal‚ so admirable and so strangely gifted‚ Hindu by race and tradition‚ and an English woman by education‚ a French woman
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When we learn stories‚ and when we learn history‚ we try to make sense of the information we’re given by piecing it together to form a whole. Sometimes the process is so fine-tuned that it goes unnoticed. The information comes from disparate sources; it develops over time; we learn parts here and there‚ and we construct and make sense of the collective story using the model of what we thought was the truth as given to us‚ before each subsequent piece of information invaded the narrative that has
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a critical Buddhist journey goal by the fifth century AD. Its sources be that as it may‚ date to a much prior time‚ much sooner than the entry of Buddhism into the valley. An accumulation of legends about the site‚ the fifteenth century Swayambhu Purana‚ recounts a phenomenal lotus‚ planted by a past Buddha‚ which bloomed from the lake that once secured Kathmandu valley. The lotus
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The Ganges (English pronunciation: /ˈɡændʒiːz/ GAN-jeez)‚ also called the Ganga (Sanskrit: गङ्गा Hindi: गंगा Urdu: گنگا Ganga IPA: [ˈɡəŋɡaː] ( listen); Bengali: গঙ্গা Gônga)‚ is the second largest river on the Indian subcontinent by discharge. Ganges river is named after a Hindu goddess called Ganga. Geographists to Historians and Mythologists regard Ganges as the heart of Indian culture‚ tradition and living. Geography[change | change source] The government declared that the Ganges river between
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