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- ) are a large corpus of texts originating in ancient India. They are ... Law"), refers to this belief in the ageless nature of the wisdom ...32 KB (4,855 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- Shakyamuni (“sage of the Shakyas,” in Pali "śakamuṇi" ... " that bind us to suffering and keep us in ignorance. More than any other ...39 KB (6,288 words) - 18:32, 22 November 2023
- ruling dynasty of ancient Karnataka in India, known as Western Gangas ... of Manyakheta replaced the Chalukyas in 753 C.E. as the dominant power ...47 KB (6,741 words) - 17:20, 4 May 2023
- , Hindi: अहमदाबाद Ahmadābād), the largest city in ... Founded in 1411, the city served as the capital of the Sultanate of ...41 KB (5,921 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- as one of the most brilliant mathematicians in recent history.Doug Peterson ... ill health, and his lack of formal training in higher mathematics, Ramanujan ...35 KB (5,270 words) - 16:14, 5 November 2023
- from the time of his father's death in 1782 until his own demise in ... of the French, he built a church, the first in Mysore. In alliance with the ...44 KB (6,987 words) - 23:40, 30 April 2023
- Kerala refers to a state on the Malabar Coast of southwestern India ... First settled in the tenth century B.C.E. by speakers of Proto-South ...79 KB (10,178 words) - 05:36, 5 June 2024
- The United States Virgin Islands are a group of islands in the Caribbean ... eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In 1917, the United States purchased ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 01:22, 3 May 2023
- began as a mutiny of sepoys of British East India Company's army on May ... northern Indian Gangetic Plain and central India." ...41 KB (6,196 words) - 18:35, 4 March 2024
- He was and is a very controversial figure in Indian history. ... person from person. His policies polarized India and may have directly contributed ...35 KB (5,433 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- from modern-day Afghanistan to Bangladesh in the sixth century B.C.E., prior ... to the Mahajanapadas only incidentally. In a struggle for supremacy during ...50 KB (7,467 words) - 05:25, 5 November 2022
- 15, 1950), a political and social leader of India, played a major role in the ... Sardār), which means Chief in many languages of India. ...64 KB (9,693 words) - 19:34, 15 September 2022
- of the Norse pantheon. She is best known in two unrelated roles: as the ... one of the more exhilarating moments in Norse mythology—one which ...15 KB (2,466 words) - 15:58, 12 February 2024
- and influential historical periods. In many ways the Sassanid period ... reaching Western Europe, Africa, China and India and played a prominent role ...72 KB (11,035 words) - 16:49, 23 December 2022
- down, derived from custom or implied. In the United States and most ... is to understand what the rights are in "civil rights." ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- Ganesha is one of the most easily recognizable gods in the Hindu pantheon ... his metaphysical ability to remove obstacles in his devotees' lives. Widely ...34 KB (5,402 words) - 04:23, 18 April 2024
- was commissioned an officer (Gunkan-bugyo) in the shogunal navy. In 1860, Katsu commanded the Kanrin-maru, a tiny triple-masted schooner ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 17:15, 5 October 2022
- ) (1666-1708) was the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs. He was born in Patna ... Guru Gobind Singh was born as Gobind Rai in Patna, Bihar, to the ninth ...43 KB (7,122 words) - 06:18, 10 January 2024
- celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834 ... Many cultures in history used slaves, often putting them to work in ...50 KB (7,650 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
- , IPA: [kəɾˈnɑːʈəkɑː]), a state in the southern part of India ... or 5.83 percent of the total geographical area of India, comprises ...50 KB (6,914 words) - 20:25, 4 January 2024
