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Being the official script for Hindi, Devanagari is officially used in the Union Government of India as well as several Indian states where Hindi is an official language, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and the Indian union territories of Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Dadra and Nagar Haveli ...
In 1955, the Government of India first amended the Indian Coinage Act and adopted the "metric system for coinage". From 1957 to 1964, the paisa was called naya paisa ( transl. 'new paisa' ) to distinguish it from the old paisa/pice which was a 1 ⁄ 64 subdivision of the Indian Rupee.
7.62 g: Bimetallic: Circular: Emblem of India and year of minting: Value with an outward radiating pattern of 10 spokes, new rupee sign: 2011: 2018 ₹ 10: 27 mm: 7.74 g: Bimetallic: Circular: Emblem of India: Value, rupee sign, year of issue, grains depicting the agricultural dominance of the country: 2019 ₹ 20: 27 mm: 8.54 g: Bimetallic ...
As first or middle fragments/members of a cluster (when letters are to be written as half pronounced), they lose that stroke. e.g. त् + व = त्व tva, ण् + ढ = ण्ढ ṇḍha, स् + थ = स्थ stha. In Unicode, as in Hindi, these consonants without their vertical stems are called "half forms". [61]
The states of Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Punjab are exceptions where Sanskrit words are not used in the state name. Mizoram was named after the Mizo tribal dialect and refers to their land. [17] Nagaland (18) Nagaland : Land of Nagas: Naga is an exonym used to describe several tribes in the region.
Papal States scudo – Papal States; Piedmont scudo – Piedmont and other mainland parts of the Kingdom of Sardinia; Sardinian scudo – Sardinia; Setu (Historically used in Southern India and Sri Lanka) Shah (Шаг) – Ukraine; Shekel. New Shekel (שקל חדש) – Israel, Gaza Strip, West Bank; Shekel (שקל) – Israel, Gaza Strip, West ...
The Indian numbering system is used in Indian English and the Indian subcontinent to express large numbers. Commonly used quantities include lakh (one hundred thousand) and crore (ten million) – written as 1,00,000 and 1,00,00,000 respectively in some locales. [1]
Indian rupee symbol in graphic form. The new sign is a combination of the Devanagari letter र ("ra") and the Latin capital letter R without its vertical bar. The parallel lines at the top (with white space between them) makes an allusion to the tricolour Indian flag and also depict an equality sign that symbolizes the nation's desire to reduce economic disparity.