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    The Gotra System In India

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    different Gotra‚ or combination of Gotras. Lord Rama was Surya Vansha also known as Raghu Vansha. This was because Lord Rama’s great-grandfather Raghu became famous. Acoording to strict Hindu tradition‚ the term Gotra is used only for the lineages of Brahmin‚ Kshatriya and Vysya families.A Gotra relates directly to the original seven or eight Rishis of the Vedas. Many lines of the descent from the major rishis were later grouped seperately. The major Gotras were divided into Ganas i.e.‚ subdivisions and

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    MidSem Report Ravi Agastya

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    A Project Report On Architecture of the Tamil Nadu seen through their literature BY Ravi Agastya Narumanchi 2012A3PS198H Under the supervision of Maria Mercy Amutha SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULLFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF BITS C323/C324: STUDY ORIENTED PROJECT BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE PILANI (RAJASTHAN) HYDERABAD CAMPUS (April 2014) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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    Love and Play

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    Abhijnana Shakuntalam KALIDASA Ujjwal Pathak English (Hons.) Q: Significance of the ‘Ring’ and ‘Curse’ in the play ‘Abhijnana Shakuntalam’

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    the final category would comprise of women who committed homicide. The first example of undaunted will power is in Sharat Chandra’s ‘Queen’s Gambit’ aka ‘Chandranath’ where the daughter of a widow who eloped with a man is married to a rich village Brahmin‚ only for the villagers to oppose the union with the husband following suit. He refuses to eat from her “…filthy hands…” Despite being pregnant‚ the wife quietly walks away from her husband’s life and begins life afresh in the company of an old chess

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    Anita Nair

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    always the daughter‚ the sister‚ the aunt‚ the provider.Until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari‚ gloriously alone for the first time in her life and determined to break free of all that her conservative Tamil Brahmin life has bound her to.In the intimate atmosphere of the ladies coupé which she shares with five other women. Janaki Prabhakar the

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    Forbidden Love

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    Forbidden Love The short story "Dhowli‚" is a tragic tale about a woman who puts her trust and faith into a love that is forbidden‚ and how she is ultimately betrayed by that love. The story demonstrates how some of the choices that she made‚ and her own selfish pride led to the injustices she received. Misrilal is a young Brahman who is captivated by a young Dusad widow. In the Indian culture‚ the Brahman caste is one of the highest castes‚ and the Dusads are one of the lowest. Because

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    Dr. C V Raman

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    Dr. C.V. Raman was born on November 7‚ 1888 in an orthodox South Indian Brahmin family in tirchurappalli‚ Tamilnadu. His father’s name was Chandra Shekhar Aiyer who had special interest in science and mathematics. His mother Parvati was a pious lady. Raman was a very brilliant student since his early childhood He passed his matriculation at the age of 11 and at 15 graduated from the Presidency College‚ Chennai. He was the only student to get a first class. He completed his Master’s degree in Physics

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    Ravidas

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    castes‚ and direct access to the deities of the upper castes was restricted. In such an environment‚ Ravidas chose to defy the priestly caste‚ and to worship a formless God who could be envisioned without the mediation of human intermediaries i.e. the Brahmins. The main motto of his poetry serves to uphold the equality of all mankind saying that a man’s action rather than his birth credentials determines his moral nobility. Ravidass ’ teachings represent an offshoot of the bhakti movement of the fifteenth

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    The very first elaborate account of the holy city of Gaya (then Gaya-kshetra) is in the concluding section of the Vayu-Purana (Hindu Religious text‚ dedicated to the wind God‚ Vayu)‚ which comprises a total of eight chapters (Source : Barua‚ Benimadhat; Gaya and Buddha Gaya‚ Volume -1‚ 2014). In the Vayu-purana‚ “Brahma is said to have declared that the entire tract of Gaya was 5 krosas (a distance of two miles) [2] in extent; that Gaya proper representing the inner zone of the tract of Gaya was

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    MICHAEL JOHN C. TANCIOCO #239 Realica Village Pulo‚ Cabuyao‚ Laguna Mobile #: 09358384595 Facebook E-add: Mikel Jan Tancioco OBJECTIVE: To seek employment that will provide challenges and opportunities and obtain a position that utilizes my knowledge and enhance more of my abilities and enables me to make a positive contribution to the organization. Skills and Qualities: * Computer Literate (MS office‚ Music‚ image and video Editor) * Disciplined and Responsible * Hardworking

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