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  2. Ola leaf - Wikipedia

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    Ola leaf is a palm leaf used for writing in traditional palm-leaf manuscripts and in fortunetelling in Southern India [1] and Sri Lanka. The leaves are from the talipot tree, a type of palm, and fortunes are written on them and read by fortune tellers. [ 2 ]

  3. Palm-leaf manuscript - Wikipedia

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    Palm leaf manuscripts of Odisha include scriptures, pictures of Devadasi, and various mudras of the Kama Sutra. Some of the early discoveries of Odia palm leaf manuscripts include writings like Smaradipika, Ratimanjari, Pancasayaka, and Anangaranga in both Odia and Sanskrit. [16] The State Museum of Odisha at Bhubaneswar houses 40,000 palm leaf ...

  4. Nadi astrology - Wikipedia

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    The article reveals, "Rajaratnam had gone to the ola-leaf readers." It is said there was a government case against Raj, that he was in the stock business, that he was famous worldwide, that he had to close his business down. Rajaratnam revealed in the article that he doesn't generally believe in fortunetellers and astrologers.

  5. Corypha umbraculifera - Wikipedia

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    It is one of the largest palms with individual specimens having reached heights of up to 25 m (82 ft) with stems up to 1.3 m (4.3 ft) in diameter. [5] It is a fan palm (Arecaceae tribe Corypheae), with large, palmate leaves up to 5 m (16 ft) in diameter, with a petiole up to 4 m (13 ft), and up to 130 leaflets.

  6. Sinhalese people - Wikipedia

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    An ola leaf manuscript written in Sinhala. Sinhalese people speak Sinhala , also known as "Helabasa"; this language has two varieties, spoken and written. Sinhala is an Indo-Aryan language within the broader group of Indo-European languages . [ 19 ]

  7. List of plants used in Indian cuisine - Wikipedia

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    Leaf vegetable names by various Indian languages; Hindi English Botanical name Assamese Bengali Gujarati Kannada Malayalam Marathi Odia Punjabi Sinhala Tamil Telugu Tulu Urdu Konkani Meitei. Nepali. Maithili: Rajasthani: सब्जीयां (Sabjiyān) Vegetables: শাক পাচলী (Xāk Pāsli) শাক সবজী (Shāk Sobji)

  8. Birch bark manuscript - Wikipedia

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    A birch bark manuscript from Kashmir of the Rupavatara, a grammatical textbook based on the Sanskrit grammar of Pāṇini (dated 1663). Birch bark manuscripts are documents written on pieces of the inner layer of birch bark, which was commonly used for writing before the mass production of paper.

  9. Glossary of botanical terms - Wikipedia

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    A space between the threads of a net, e.g. that part of a leaf surface defined by each of the elements of a vein network; as with cacti, the area between the veinlets of a leaf. 2. A structure on the stem node of a cactus , morphologically a specialised branch; the region of a cactus upon which spine s, glochid s, and flowers are borne.