good fortune and had a use in many different cultures until it became a symbol of evil. This is the history of how the swastika that once decorated many cultural symbols became a symbol of great tragedy and strife. In the ancient Indian language of Sanskrit‚ swastika means "well-being" or “good fortune.” The symbol has been used by Hindus‚ Buddhists and Jains for millions of years and is assumed to once have been an Indian sign. Early travellers to Asia were inspired by its positive associations as
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BENGALI LANGUAGE AND CULTURE A Resource Guide for Public School Teachers in New York City 1 Section 1 The World of Bengali 2 The Bengali Language • Bengali or Bangla is an Indo-Aryan language d i d from derived f Sanskrit S ki • It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal‚ which comprises present day Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal • With nearly 230 million native speakers‚ Bengali p y spoken p languages g g in is one of the most ppopularly the world 3 The
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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY Admission Announcement : 2013-14 (Cate ory-A) teg THROUGH EXAMINA (Categor y-A) ADMISSION THROUGH ENTRANCE EXAMINATION The University will hold Entrance Examination on May 18‚ 19‚ 20 and 21‚ 2013 for admission to various full-time programmes of study at the following 51 cities : Agartala‚ Ahmedabad‚ Aizawl‚ Allahabad‚ Amritsar‚ Bangalore‚ Bareilly‚ Bhubaneshwar‚ Calicut‚ Chandigarh‚ Chennai‚ Coimbatore‚ Dehradun‚ Delhi‚ Dimapur‚ Gangtok‚ Guwahati‚ Goa‚ Gorakhpur‚ Gwalior
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Introduction: Culture is the set of patterns of human activity within a society or social group and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. Customs‚ laws‚ popular styles‚ social standards‚ and traditions are all examples of cultural elements. The term culture refers to a state of intellectual development . The social and political forces that influence the growth of a human being are defined as culture. Culture is a total way of life shared by a people in a society.
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Ramanan Ravendran – I got 22.5 out of 25 for this! Asian 225 : Indus Valley Civilization and Hinduism The origins of Hinduism‚ centered on the relationship between Hinduism and the Indus Valley civilization‚ have always been fiercely debated amongst historians and scholars. The Indus Valley civilization flourished from around 2500 BCE to 1500 BCE (Flood‚ pg 23). However‚ without written records of this prehistoric civilization‚ we are unable to make accurate claims about the religious practices
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Guru-Sishya Parampara C.S.PITCHUMONI. Gururbrahmaa gururvishnuh gururdevo Maheswarah | Guruh-saakshaat parabrahma tasmai shri gurave namah || Objectives 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Understand the significance of Dakshinamurthy ‚ the lord of teaching. Three periods 1. mythological 2. historical 3. Current. Dakshinamurthy‚ Lord Shiva as a teacher. Veda Vyasa‚ Adi Guru Qualities of a Sishya‚ and Guru Beginning of Guru-Sishya Parampara. Adi Shankara Traditional
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The Brahmaputra (Sanskrit ब्रह्मपुत्र)‚ (Assamese ব্ৰহ্মপুত্ৰ নদ Brôhmôputrô)[2] also called Tsangpo-Brahmaputra‚ is a trans-boundary river and one of the major rivers of Asia. With its origin from Talung Tso Lake in southwestern Tibet as the Yarlung Tsangpo River‚ it flows across southern Tibet to break through the Himalayas in great gorges and into Arunachal Pradesh (India) where it is known as Dihang.[3] It flows southwest through the Assam Valley as Brahmaputra and south through Bangladesh as
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March‚ 2013|11.00 a..m. to2.00 p.m.|SECOND OR THIRD LANGUAGEद्वितीय वा त्रितीय भाषा Urdu(18) उर्दू(१८)Sanskrit(27) संस्कृत (२७)Pali(28) पाली (२८)Ardhamagdhi(29) अर्धमागधी (२९)Persian(30) पर्शियन(३०)Arabic(31) अरेबिक (३१)Avesta(32) अवेस्ता (३२)Pahalvi(33) पहलवी (३३)Russian(36) रशियन (३६)|3.00 p.m.to5.00 p.m.|SECOND OR THIRD LANGUAGE (COMPOSITE COURSE)द्वितीय वा त्रितीय भाषा (संयुक्त अभ्यासक्रम )Sanskrit (Comp.) संस्कृत (संयुक्त)(D)Pali (Comp.) पाली (संयुक्त) (E)Ardhamagadhi(Comp)अर्धमागधी(संयुक्त)(F)
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“Consolidated vision” from culture and imperialism: It is an essay by Edward said published in 1993.Said tries to follow the relation between the culture and the imperialism during the last three centuries.This eassy influenced by his previous book Orinentlism‚ published in 1987. Said convinces the impact of dominant culture basically the British writers of the 19th and 20th century‚ for example‚ Rudyard Kipling and Jane Austen on imperialism and colonialism throughout three novels. He defines
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Gandhi changed? So he says that he does not changed at all. He is the same person than before who fight for Ahimsa‚ which is the sanskrit word for non – violence. This words support Gandhi’s intention because the people can trust his authentic words. After that he describes what Ahimsa mean to him. Ahimsa is nonviolence and it is the contrast to Himsa which is the sanskrit word for violence. The situation in 1942 was full of Himsa. He is a person who trade non-violent. “Purest Ahimsa” is given from
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