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Lakshagriha (Sanskrit: लाक्षागृहम्, romanized: Lākṣāgṛham), [1] also called the House of Lacquer, is a palace made of lacquer featured in ...
Sealing wax is a wax material of a seal which, after melting, hardens quickly (to paper, parchment, ribbons and wire, and other material), forming a bond that is difficult to break without noticeable tampering. Wax is used to verify that something such as a document is unopened, to verify the sender's identity (for example with a seal stamp or ...
Dhokra (also spelt Dokra) is non–ferrous metal casting using the lost-wax casting technique. This sort of metal casting has been used in India for over 4,000 years and is still used. One of the earliest known lost wax artefacts is the dancing girl of Mohenjo-daro. [1] The product of dhokra artisans are in great demand in domestic and foreign ...
Paksha (Sanskrit: पक्ष, romanized:pakṣa) refers to a fortnight or a lunar phase in a month of the Hindu lunar calendar. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Literally meaning "side", [ 3 ] a paksha is the period either side of the purnima (full moon day). A lunar month in the Hindu calendar has two fortnights, and begins with the purnima (new moon).
Waxing. Waxing a woman's armpits. Waxing is the process of hair removal from the root by using a covering of a sticky substance, such as wax, to adhere to body hair, and then removing this covering and pulling out the hair from the follicle. New hair will not grow back in the previously waxed area for four to six weeks, although some people ...
Ekadashi. Ekadashi (Sanskrit: एकादशी, romanized: Ēkādaśī, lit. 'The eleventh day') is the eleventh lunar day (tithi) of the waxing (Shukla Pakṣa) and waning (Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa) lunar cycles in a Vedic calendar month. [1] Ekadashi is popularly observed within Vaishnavism one of the major paths within Sanatan Dharma.
A lunar phase or Moon phase is the apparent shape of the Moon 's directly sunlit portion as viewed from the Earth (because the Moon is tidally locked with the Earth, the same hemisphere is always facing the Earth). In common usage, the four major phases are the new moon, the first quarter, the full moon and the last quarter; the four minor ...
Jojoba oil. Jojoba oil (/ həˈhoʊbə / ⓘ) is the liquid produced in the seed of the Simmondsia chinensis (jojoba) [1] plant, a shrub, which is native to southern Arizona, southern California, and northwestern Mexico. The oil makes up approximately 50% of the jojoba seed by weight. [2] The terms "jojoba oil" and "jojoba wax" are often used ...