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  2. Balarama - Wikipedia

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    Nishatha and Ulmuka (sons) [6] Dynasty. Yaduvamsha – Chandravamsha. Balarama (Sanskrit: बलराम, IAST: Balarāma) is a Hindu god, and the elder brother of Krishna. [7][8] He is particularly significant in the Jagannath tradition, as one of the triad deities. [9] He is also known as Haladhara, Halayudha, Baladeva, Balabhadra, and ...

  3. Ramayana - Wikipedia

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    In the Buddhist variant of the Ramayana (Dasaratha Jataka), Dasharatha was king of Benares and not Ayodhya. Rama (called Rāmapaṇḍita in this version) was the son of Kaushalya, first wife of Dasharatha. Lakṣmaṇa (Lakkhaṇa) was a sibling of Rama and son of Sumitra, the second wife of Dasharatha. Sita was the wife of Rama.

  4. Kathasaritsagara - Wikipedia

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    Kathāsaritsāgara consists of 18 lambhakas ("books") of 124 taramgas (chapters called as "waves") and approximately 22,000 ślokas (distichs) in addition to prose sections. [ 1 ] The śloka consists of 2 half-verses of 16 syllables each. Thus, syllabically, the Kathāsaritsāgara is approximately equal to 66,000 lines of iambic pentameter; by ...

  5. Ramcharitmanas - Wikipedia

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    Ramcharitmanas is considered by many as a work belonging to the Saguna school [5] [6] of the Bhakti movement [7] [8] [n 1] in Hindi literature. In May 2024, during the tenth meeting of the Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific, the Ramcharitamanas manuscripts were added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Asia-Pacific Regional ...

  6. Katha (unit) - Wikipedia

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    In Bihar, one Katha may vary from 720 to 3,267 square feet (ft 2). 1 Bigha = 20 Katha. One katha is divided in 20 dhur. One dhur is subdivided in 20 dhurki. The origin of the term and measurement unit was during the Pala Empire. [1] 1 Decimal = 435.6 square feet & 1 Acre = 100 decimal. [2][3]

  7. Balbharati - Wikipedia

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    Website. ebalbharati .in. Balbharati (The Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Production and Curriculum Research) is located in Pune, Maharashtra, India. [ 1] Balbharati is publishing integrated textbooks for Class I to Class VII. In this type of textbook all subjects are included in one book and that book is split into 4 parts according to ...

  8. Dashavatara - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] [4] [9] Some lists mention Krishna as the eighth avatar and the Buddha as the ninth avatar, [9] while others, such as the Paripāṭal [citation needed] (c. 3rd-4th CE), which is the fifth of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) in the Sangam literature, and the Yatindramatadipika, a 17th-century summary of Sri Vaishnava doctrine, [4 ...

  9. Itihasa-Purana - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In Hinduism, Itihasa-Purana, also called the fifth Veda, [1][2][3] refers to the traditional accounts of cosmogeny, myths, royal genealogies of the lunar dynasty and solar dynasty, and legendary past events, [web 1] as narrated in the Itahasa (Mahabharata and the Ramayana) [1] and the Puranas. [1] They are highly influential in Indian ...