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2. Nose-jewel - Wikipedia

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   A Hindu bride wearing the Nath. The nose ring is called a Nath (Hindi: नथ, IPA:) in various local languages and were introduced around the 9th and 10th centuries becoming a symbol of a woman's marital status. The nath in its full form contains a jeweled ring with a chain connected to a hairpiece.

3. Hindu iconography - Wikipedia

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   Over the millennia of its development, Hinduism has adopted several iconic symbols, forming part of Hindu iconography, that are imbued with spiritual meaning based on either the scriptures or cultural traditions. The exact significance accorded to any of the icons varies with region, period and denomination of the followers.

4. Religious and political symbols in Unicode - Wikipedia

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   Characters that fall in the "political or religious" category are given the "general category" So, which is the catch-all category for "Symbol, other", i.e. anything considered a "symbol" which does not fall in any of the three other categories of Sm (mathematical symbols), Sc (currency symbols) or Sk (phonetic modifier symbols, i.e. IPA signs ...

5. Hindu art - Wikipedia

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   Also among the first known illustrations of Hindu deities appear on Hellenistic coinage, as witnesses by the Indo-Greeks in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, and they are generally identified as Balarama-Samkarshana and Vasudeva-Krishna, together with their attributes, especially the Gada mace and the plow for the former, and the Vishnu ...

6. Category:Hindu symbols - Wikipedia

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7. Art of Mathura - Wikipedia

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   The Art of Mathura refers to a particular school of Indian art, almost entirely surviving in the form of sculpture, starting in the 2nd century BCE, which centered on the city of Mathura, in central northern India, during a period in which Buddhism, Jainism together with Hinduism flourished in India. [5]

8. 17 Traditional Christmas Symbols (Including Bells, Holly and ...

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   Over time, the tradition of decorating a Christmas tree with candles was replaced with other things, like paper roses, fruits and nuts. In the mid-1800s, German glassmaker Hans Greiner began ...

9. Jain art - Wikipedia

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   Digambara images are naked without any ornamentation, whereas Śvetāmbara ones may be clothed and in worship may be decorated with temporary ornaments. [6] The images are often marked with Srivatsa on the chest and Tilaka on the forehead. [7] Srivatsa is one of the ashtamangala (auspicious symbols).