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  2. Ent - Wikipedia

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    The word "Ent" is from the Old English ent or eoten, meaning "giant". Tolkien borrowed the word from a phrase in the Anglo-Saxon poems The Ruin and Maxims II, orþanc enta geweorc ("cunning work of giants"), [1] which describes Roman ruins. [T 11] [2] In Sindarin, one of Tolkien's invented Elvish languages, the word for Ent is Onod (plural Enyd).

  3. Sthala Vriksha - Wikipedia

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    When the tree dies for some reason, another tree is planted in the same location. Spiritually, it is considered as the rebirth cycle. [ 13 ] According to the historian Soundara Rajan, the institutionalization of the temple trees, temple history, and the festival calendar in South Indian temples was initiated during the 11th century.

  4. Sculpture in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    The Statue of Henry Hardinge, Governor-General of India. During this period, European styled statues were erected in city squares, as monuments to the British Empire's power. Statues of Queen Victoria, George V, and various Governor-Generals of India were erected. Such statues were removed from public places after independence, and placed ...

  5. Trees in mythology - Wikipedia

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    W. B. Yeats describes a "holy tree" in his poem "The Two Trees" (1893). In George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, one of the main religions, that of "the old gods" or "the gods of the North", involves sacred groves of trees ("godswoods") with a white tree with red leaves at the center known as the "heart tree".

  6. List of Tamil Nadu state symbols - Wikipedia

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    Palaapalam species of tree in the fig, mulberry, and breadfruit family tree. State Tree Panai Maram பனை மரம் Palm Tree Borassus flabellifer: Panai Maram is a genus of five species of fan palms, native to tropical regions of Africa, Asia and Papua New Guinea. State Sport Kapaṭi கபடி Kabaddi Kapaṭi is a contact team ...

  7. Thiruvalluvar - Wikipedia

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    The statue was designed by V. Ganapati Sthapati, a temple architect from Tamil Nadu. [115] On 9 August 2009, a statue was unveiled in Ulsoor, near Bengaluru , also making it the first of its kind in India for a poet of a local language to be installed in its near states other than his own homeland.

  8. Descent of the Ganges (Mahabalipuram) - Wikipedia

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    Descent of the Ganges, known locally as Arjuna's Penance, [1] [2] is a monument at Mamallapuram, on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal, in the Chengalpattu district of the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Measuring 96 by 43 feet (29 m × 13 m), it is a giant open-air rock relief carved on two monolithic rock boulders.

  9. National symbols of India - Wikipedia

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    The tree's structure and deep roots symbolise unity and as the tree gives shelter to various organisms , it denotes India and its people from different backgrounds. [72] National fruit: Mango (Mangifera indica) [72] [77] 1950 [78] Mango is a large fruit tree with many varieties, believed to have originated in northeast India.