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  2. Bhai Dooj - Wikipedia

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    Bhau Beej, or Bhav Bij (Marathi: भाऊ बीज) or Bhai Beej amongst the Marathi, Gujarati and Konkani-speaking communities in the states of Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat and Karnataka. Another name for the day is Yamadwitheya or Yamadvitiya , after a legendary meeting between Yama the god of Death and his sister Yamuna (the famous river) on ...

  3. Dvitiya - Wikipedia

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    Dvitiya. Dvitiya (Sanskrit: द्वितीय, romanized: Dvitīya) also referred to as Beej (Sanskrit: बीज, romanized: Bīja) and Dooj (Sanskrit: दुजा, romanized: Dujā) is the Sanskrit word for "second", [1] and is the second day of the lunar fortnight of the Hindu calendar.

  4. Diwali - Wikipedia

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    The last day of the festival, the second day of the bright fortnight of Kartik, is called Bhai Duj (literally "brother's day" [152]), Bhau Beej, Bhai Tilak or Bhai Phonta. It celebrates the sister-brother bond, similar in spirit to Raksha Bandhan but it is the brother that travels to meet the sister and her family.

  5. Bījamantra - Wikipedia

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    Meaning / use Deity A: The unborn, emptiness, Dharmakaya: Mahāvairocana, or other Adi-Buddha figures āḥ found in oṃ āḥ hūṃ Amoghasiddhi, Karma Buddha Family: aṃ Samantabhadra bodhisattva bhai Bhaiṣajyaguru: bhaḥ Shakyamuni: dhīḥ Prajñāpāramita, from the Vedic word meaning to think, or meditate: Mañjusri, Prajñaparamita ...

  6. Bengali Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The Bengali Wikipedia now has 162,026 articles on various topics with 1,120 active editors per month. As of January 2019, Bengali Wikipedia is the only online free encyclopedia written in the Bengali language. [29] [30] It is also one of the largest Bengali content related sites on the internet. [31]

  7. Bīja - Wikipedia

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    These seeds do not have specific linguistic meaning nor are they name mantras, but they may stand for specific principles, deities, powers, or ideas. [6] The best-known bīja syllable is Om, first found in the Hindu scriptures the Upanishads. In Buddhism, the most important seed syllable is the letter A bija.

  8. Kothao Keu Nei - Wikipedia

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    Kothao Keu Nei (Bengali: কোথাও কেউ নেই, English: No one is anywhere) is a Bangladeshi drama television series written by Humayun Ahmed and directed by Barkatullah, which aired on Bangladesh Television from 1992 to 1993.

  9. Banglapedia - Wikipedia

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    The first was a project to produce a Bengali adaptation of Columbia Viking Desk Encyclopedia by Franklin Book Programs Inc., undertaken in 1959 and aborted ten years later. The unfinished papers were compiled into four unequal volumes as Bangla Vishvakosh (1972) with Khan Bahadur Abdul Hakim as the chief editor. [8]