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  2. Gandhari language - Wikipedia

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    Von Hinüber (1982b and 1983) has pointed out incompletely Sanskritised Gāndhārī words in works heretofore ascribed to the Sarvāstivādins and drew the conclusion that either the sectarian attribution had to be revised, or the tacit dogma "Gāndhārī equals Dharmaguptaka" is wrong. Conversely, Dharmaguptakas also resorted to Sanskrit.

  3. Biblical names in their native languages - Wikipedia

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    Pronunciation: Bayawt Lahawm Meaning: House of Bread Village name from 587 BC through the time of Christ: Aramaic: בית לחם Pronunciation: Beit Lekhem Meaning: House of Bread Beth Shemesh: Village Paleo-Hebrew: 𐤁𐤉𐤕𐤔𐤌𐤔 Pronunciation: Bayawt Shamawsh Meaning: House of Sun Caesar, Augustus (son of Gaius Octavius & Atia ...

  4. Gandhara (svara) - Wikipedia

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    Gandhara is the third svara in an octave or Saptak. Gandhara is the immediate next svara of Rishabh (Re). The svara of Gandhara is Komal and Shuddha. It is said that Shadja is the basic svara from which all the other 6 svaras are produced. When we break the word Shadja then we get, Shad And Ja.

  5. Kharosthi - Wikipedia

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    A further diacritic, the double ring below 𐨍 appears with vowels -a and -u in some Central Asian documents, but its precise phonetic function is unknown. [ 20 ] Salomon has established that the vowel order is /a e i o u/, akin to Semitic scripts, rather than the usual vowel order for Indic scripts /a i u e o/.

  6. Ganadhara - Wikipedia

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    Vrishabha Sen was the Ganadhara of Tīrthankara Rishabhanatha.According to Jain legends, after the nirvana of Rishabhanatha, Bharata was in grief. Ganadhara Vrisabha Sen saw him and spoke to him:

  7. Gandhari (Mahabharata) - Wikipedia

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    'of Gandhara', IAST: Gāndhārī) is a prominent figure in the Hindu epic the Mahabharata. She is the daughter of King Subala, the ruler of Gandhara, and becomes the wife of Dhritarashtra, the blind king of Kuru Kingdom. In a remarkable act of solidarity, Gandhari blindfolds herself for life upon learning of her husband’s blindness, choosing ...

  8. Gandhāran Buddhist texts - Wikipedia

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    On a semi-related point, the Gandhāran text of the Rhinoceros Sutra contains the word mahayaṇaṣa, which some might identify with "Mahayana." [ 11 ] However, according to Salomon, in Kharoṣṭhī orthography there is no reason to think that the phrase in question, amaṃtraṇa bhoti mahayaṇaṣa ("there are calls from the multitude ...

  9. List of English words of Hebrew origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words of Hebrew origin. Transliterated pronunciations not found in Merriam-Webster or the American Heritage Dictionary follow Sephardic/Modern Israeli pronunciations as opposed to Ashkenazi pronunciations, with the major difference being that the letter taw ( ת ‎) is transliterated as a 't' as opposed to an 's'.