Adi-Parva‚ First Book: The Origins of the Families The story opens as Sauti‚ a storyteller returning from the snake sacrifice of King Janamejaya‚ approaches several wise men‚ or rishis‚ in the forest of Naimisha. He relates to them the Mahabharata as he has heard it from Vaisampayana‚ a disciple of the poet Vyasa. Sauti begins by recounting the death of King Parikshit of the Bharatas at the hands of Takshaka‚ aNaga‚ or snake-man. King Janamejaya‚ Parikshit’s son and successor‚ had held the snake
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Deepavali or Diwali‚ popularly known as the "festival of lights‚" is a five-day Hindu festival[3] which starts on Dhanteras‚ celebrated on the thirteenth lunar day of Krishna paksha (dark fortnight) of the Hindu calendar month Ashwin and ends on Bhaubeej‚ celebrated on second lunar day of Shukla paksha of the Hindu calendar month Kartik. Dhanteras usually falls eighteen days after Dussehra. In the Gregorian calendar‚ Diwali falls between mid-October and mid-November. Diwali is an official holiday
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BACKGROUND ON KARNA Karna is one of the central characters in the epic Mahabharata‚ from ancient India. He was the King of Anga. Karna was one of the greatest warriors whose martial exploits are recorded in the Mahabharata‚ an admiration expressed by Krishna and Bhishma within the body of this work. Karna was the son of Surya and Kunti. He was born to Kunti before her marriage with Pandu. Karna was the closest friend of Duryodhana and fought on his behalf against the Pandavas in the famous Kurukshetra
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The Mahabharata (composed between 300 BC and 300 AD) has the honor of being the longest epic in world literature‚ 100‚000 2-line stanzas (although the most recent critical edition edits this down to about 88‚000)‚ making it eight times as long as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey together‚ and over 3 times as long as the Bible (Chaitanya vii). According to the Narasimhan version‚ only about 4000 lines relate to the main story; the rest contain additional myths and teachings. In other words‚ the Mahabharataresembles
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Thai word Krung which means capital. It translates to “The city of angels‚ the great city‚ the eternal jewel city‚ the impregnable city of God Indra‚ the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems‚ the happy city‚ abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god‚ a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukrama”. Thailand northern border is connected to main land with several countries and southern part with the ocean. Because
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social problems likes hunger. There is growing acceptance of the need to develop new business models that simultaneously generate financial profits critical for long-term growth and improve both population health and the environment — PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi (2007) terms this "performance with purpose‚ Bill Gates‚ (2008) Chairman of Microsoft and Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation‚ calls it "creative capital-ism‚" and Muhammad Yunus‚ (2006) the founder of Grameen Bank‚ refers to the evolution
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In Hindu mythology‚ dance is believed to have been conceived by Brahma. Brahma inspired the sage Bharata Muni to write the Natya Shastra‚ a treatise on performing arts‚ from which a codified practice of dance and drama emerged.[3] He used pathya (words) from the Rigveda‚ abhinaya (gestures) from the Yajurveda‚ geet (music) from the Samaveda and rasa (emotions) from the Atharvaveda to form the Natyaveda (body of knowledge about dance).[4]The best-known of Hindu deities—Shiva‚ Kali and Krishna—are
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