Kala (Sanskrit: काल, romanized: Kālá/Kālam, IPA: [kɑːˈlə]) is a Sanskrit term that means 'time' or 'death'. As time personified, destroying all things...
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Manvantara (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
lit. 'union or juncture'), sometimes with a compound of kala (Sanskrit: काल, romanized: kāla, lit. 'time'), have been used to represent "the juncture...
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Kalā means 'performing art' in Sanskrit. In Hindu scriptures, Shiva is the master of Kalā. In the Lalita Sahasranama, the devi is invoked as an embodiment...
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The Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship, also known as Lalit Kala Akademi Ratna (Sanskrit ratna, "gem") is an honor for the fine arts in India. It is awarded...
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Muhurta (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Muhūrta (Sanskrit: मुहूर्त, romanized: muhūrtaṃ) is a Hindu unit of measurement for time along with nimiṣa, kāṣṭhā, and kalā in the Hindu calendar. In...
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Sanskrit (/ˈsænskrɪt/; attributively संस्कृत-, saṃskṛta-; nominally संस्कृतम्, saṃskṛtam, IPA: [ˈsɐ̃skr̩tɐm]) is a classical language belonging to the...
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Devarshi Kala Nath Shastry was born on 15 July 1936. He is a Sanskrit scholar and was honoured by the President of India in 1988. He is an Indologist and...
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Look up Kala, kala, or kala- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kala or Kalah may refer to: Kāla, meaning 'time' or 'black', and in various Indic religions...
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fighter and politician Kala Nath Shastry (born 1936), Indian Sanskrit scholar Aivar Kala (born 1957), Estonian politician Anirudh Kala, psychiatrist based...
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Bhairava (redirect from Kala Bhairava)
or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. Bhairava (Sanskrit: भैरव, lit. 'frightful'), or Kala Bhairava, is a Shaivite and Vajrayāna deity worshipped...
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Sanskrit language has a complex verbal system, rich nominal declension, and extensive use of compound nouns. It was studied and codified by Sanskrit grammarians...
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Kalaratri (redirect from Kala Ratri)
part of the word kalaratri is kala. Kala primarily means time, but also means black. This is a masculine noun in Sanskrit. Time, as perceived by ancient...
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Kashyapa (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Kashyapa (Sanskrit: कश्यप, IAST: Kaśyapa) is a revered Vedic sage of Hinduism. He is one of the Saptarishis, the seven ancient sages of the Rigveda. Kashyapa...
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Kalakeyas (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
The kalakeyas (Sanskrit: कालकेय, romanized: Kālakeya) or kalakhanjas (Sanskrit: कालखञ्ज, romanized: kālakhañjā) are a sect of danavas in Hindu mythology...
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Kalabhairavashtakam (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
The Kalabhairava Ashtaka (Sanskrit: कालभैरवअष्टक, romanized: Kālabhairavaṣṭaka) is a Sanskrit hymn written by Adi Shankara. The hymn addresses Kalabhairava...
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Vedic Sanskrit is the name given by modern scholarship to the oldest attested descendant of the Proto-Indo-Aryan language. This is the language that was...
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Consorts of Ganesha (redirect from Kala Bo)
the Kala Bo, see: Cohen, Lawrence, "The Wives of Gaṇeśa", in: Brown 1991, pp. 124–125. For pictures of the 32 meditation forms along with the Sanskrit descriptions...
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politician, film producer, and a philanthropist. In 1993 he produced the Sanskrit film Bhagavad Gita, which garnered the National Film Award for Best Feature...
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79°36′58″E / 17.956286°N 79.616053°E / 17.956286; 79.616053 Kakatiya Kala Thoranam (also called Warangal Gate) is a historical arch in the Warangal...
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Visceral leishmaniasis (redirect from Kala azar)
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala-azar (Hindi: kālā āzār, "black sickness") or "black fever", is the most severe form of leishmaniasis and...
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Samar (name) (section Sanskrit)
"war" from the Sanskrit Samara. Akim Samar (1916 - 1943), Soviet Nanai poet Devi Lal Samar, founder-director of the Bharatiya Lok Kala Mandal folk-theatre...
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Kirtimukha (Sanskrit: कीर्तिमुख ,kīrtimukha, also kīrttimukha, a bahuvrihi compound translating to "glorious face") is the name of a swallowing fierce...
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Malayalam drama (section Sanskrit era)
The influence of Sanskrit is evident in the early Malayalam plays. In 1882, Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran translated the Sanskrit drama Abhijnana...
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Akasha (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Akasha or Akash (Sanskrit ākāśa आकाश) means space, sky or aether in traditional Indian cosmology, depending on the religion. The term has also been adopted...
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Rāhu (Sanskrit: राहु, ) is one of the nine major celestial bodies (navagraha) in Hindu texts and the king of meteors. It represents the ascension of the...
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"Telangana Sarkar" in Urdu and Satyameva Jayate is written in Sanskrit. Kakatiya Kala Thoranam Charminar The emblem was designed by painter, Laxman Aelay...
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Sanskrit has inherited from its parent, the Proto-Indo-European language, an elaborate system of verbal morphology, much of which has been preserved in...
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Purusha (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Purusha (Sanskrit: पुरुष, IAST: Puruṣa) is a complex concept whose meaning evolved in Vedic and Upanishadic times. Depending on source and historical timeline...
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