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The kingdom, along with Old Kedah settlement, are probably the earliest territorial footholds founded on the Malay Peninsula. According to tradition, the founding of the kingdom happened in the 2nd century; Malay legends claim that Langkasuka was founded at Kedah, and later moved to Pattani.
The word Hindū is an exonym, [30] derived from Sanskrit Sindhu, [31] the name of the Indus River as well as the country of the lower Indus basin . [32] [33] [note 10] The Proto-Iranian sound change *s > h occurred between 850 and 600 BCE. [35] "Hindu" occurs in Avesta as heptahindu, equivalent to Rigvedic sapta sindhu. [36]
Shivaji was born in the hill-fort of Shivneri, near Junnar, which is now in Pune district.Scholars disagree on his date of birth; the Government of Maharashtra lists 19 February as a holiday commemorating Shivaji's birth (Shivaji Jayanti).
Vishnudevananda Saraswati (31 December 1927 – 9 November 1993, birth name Kuttan Nair) was an Indian yoga guru known for his teaching of asanas, a disciple of Sivananda Saraswati, and founder of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and Ashrams (ISYVC). He established the Sivananda Yoga Teachers' Training Course, possibly the first ...
Śramaṇa gave rise to the concept of the cycle of birth and death, the concept of samsara, and the concept of liberation. [87] Buddha found a Middle Way that ameliorated the extreme asceticism found in the Śramaṇa religions. [88] Around the same time, Mahavira (the 24th Tirthankara in Jainism) propagated a theology that was to later become ...
Hinduism – predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent. [1] Its followers are called Hindus , who refer to it as Sanātana Dharma [ 2 ] ( Sanskrit : सनातनधर्मः , lit.
The word Hindu is an exonym. [86] [87] This word Hindu is derived from the Indo-Aryan [88] and Sanskrit [88] [70] word Sindhu, which means "a large body of water", covering "river, ocean". [89] [d] It was used as the name of the Indus River and also referred to its tributaries.
The exact date of Ashoka's birth is not certain, as the extant contemporary Indian texts did not record such details. It is known that he lived in the 3rd century BCE, as his inscriptions mention several contemporary rulers whose dates are known with more certainty, such as Antiochus II Theos , Ptolemy II Philadelphus , Antigonus II Gonatas ...