Nagara (Ancient Greek: Νάγαρα), also known as Dionysopolis (Διονυσόπολις), was an ancient city in the northwest part of India intra Gangem ("India within...
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Look up nagara or Nagara in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nagara may refer to: Nagara (ancient city), an ancient city in Afghanistan Nagara, Karnataka...
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This is an incomplete list of ancient Greek cities, including colonies outside Greece, and including settlements that were not sovereign poleis. Many colonies...
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The Nagara River (長良川, Nagara-gawa) has its source in the city of Gujō, Gifu Prefecture, and its mouth in the city of Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Along...
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Vijayanagara (redirect from Vijaya nagara)
occupied up to the present. The name translates as "City of Victory", from vijaya (victory) and nagara (city). As the prosperous capital of the largest and...
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Lalita Sahasranama (section The City of Sri Nagara)
At the behest of name 57, the divine city of Sri Nagara is described in all its splendor. The origins of the city can be traced to two different texts...
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Polonnaruwa (redirect from Ancient City of Polonnaruwa)
Polonnaruwa. The name was perhaps a contraction of its ancient name Pulastya nagara or Pulatti nakaram meaning city of the Hindu sage Pulastya. It was renamed under...
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considered as the beginning of the classical period of Indian architecture. Nagara and Dravidian architectural styles developed in the early medieval period...
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Vijithapura (redirect from Vijitha Nagara)
romanized: Vijita Nakaram), also known as Vijitha Nagara or Vijithagama, was a fortress–city in ancient Sri Lanka. When Vijaya, the first recorded ruler...
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currently takes place in 13 cities in Japan. The most famous location is Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, home to cormorant fishing on the Nagara River, which has continued...
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Hindu temple architecture (redirect from Nagara style)
Asia. Its great capital, Angkor (Khmer: អង្គរ, "Capital City", derived from Sanskrit "nagara"), contains some of the most important and the most magnificent...
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era. Nagari is a vṛddhi derivation from नगर (nagara), which means city. The Nāgarī script appeared in ancient India as a central-eastern variant of the Gupta...
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bodies. Nagara Mahajana, Pattana shetty, Pattanaswamy, Pattanavergade, Gowda Pattana swamy were the patriarchs of larger Urban areas namely, Nagara, Nakara...
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concerning a royal person, and nakhon (from Pali: nagara) designates an important or capital city. Prior to Ayutthaya's traditional founding date, archaeological...
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Osaka (redirect from Osaka City)
Emperor Kōtoku built his Naniwa Nagara-Toyosaki Palace in what is now Osaka, making it the capital of Japan. The city now known as Osaka was at this time...
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Naqareh (redirect from Gosha nagara)
The naqareh, naqqāra, nagara or nagada is a Middle Eastern drum with a rounded back and a hide head, usually played in pairs. It is thus a membranophone...
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Suktimati (category Ancient Indian cities)
Shuktimati, which flows through the region. It is referred to as Sotthivati-nagara in the Pali-language Buddhist texts. Shuktimati is described to have been...
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Carcosa is a fictional city in Ambrose Bierce's short story "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" (1886). The ancient and mysterious city is barely described and...
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Varanasi (category Ancient Indian cities)
Varanasi is one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities. Kashi, its ancient name, was associated with a kingdom of the same name of 2,500...
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Yona (category Ancient Greece–Ancient India relations)
this statement is largely vague. Cham sources refer Dai Viet as nagara Yuen (Cham: nagara yvan, lit. "Viet state"), and the Viets as Yuen (yvan). Both terminologies...
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Valmiki (category Ancient Indian poets)
of Ancient India (a New Version) : From 7300 Bb To 4250 Bc. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. 2006. p. 720. ISBN 9788126906154. "The Skanda Purana, Nagara Khanda...
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sacred sanctum sanctorum (garbha griha) of the Ram Mandir, a traditional Nagara style temple. The murti (idol) was consecrated in an elaborate Prana pratishtha...
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Bhitargaon (category Cities and towns in Kanpur Nagar district)
resemblance. However a close look reveals nagara style curvilinear shape. There are significant detached ancient sculptures: Lord Jagannath idol, a Surya...
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Naga-khanda in the south of the Bharata-kshetra of Jambu dvipa : this is the Nagara-khanda Seventy of so many inscriptions, of which Bandanikke (Bandalike in...
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the temples of this period have nagara articulation, built in the stepped diamond and the square plan natural to a nagara superstructure. Notable among...
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Nara Burnu (redirect from Nagara Point)
Nara Burnu (Turkish "Cape Nara"), formerly Nağara Burnu, in English Nagara Point, and in older sources Point Pesquies, is a headland on the Anatolian...
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heading towards Nagara. Get off the bus at "Gifu Kōen, Rekishi Hakubutsukan-mae," approximately 15 minutes from the train stations. Gifu City Walking Map...
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Devakottai (category Cities and towns in Sivaganga district)
Chettinad belt. The town is famous for its ancient temple Sri Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple also known as Nagara Sivan Kovil. As of 2011, the town had a...
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located in the city of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Along with Mount Kinka and the Nagara River, it is one of the main symbols of the city. The castle is...
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