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  2. Cardinal direction - Wikipedia

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    Sanskrit and other Indian languages that borrow from it use the names of the gods associated with each direction: east (Indra), southeast (Agni), south (Yama/Dharma), southwest (Nirrti), west (Varuna), northwest (Vayu), north (Kubera/Heaven) and northeast (Ishana/Shiva). North is associated with the Himalayas and heaven while the south is ...

  3. Guardians of the directions - Wikipedia

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    North Yama, God of Justice and Death South Indra, Lord of Heaven and God of the Weather, Sky, Rain, and Storms East Varuna, God of the Seas, Oceans, and Rain West Ishana, God of Birth, Death, Resurrection, and Time Northeast Agni, God of Fire Southeast (in the image incorrectly shown on southwest) Vayu, God of the Winds and Air Northwest

  4. List of extreme points of India - Wikipedia

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    The extreme points of India include the coordinates that are further north, south, east or west than any other location in India; and the highest and the lowest altitudes in the country. The northernmost point claimed by India is in territory disputed between India and Pakistan , and administered partially by both.

  5. North–South and East–West Corridor - Wikipedia

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    The NorthSouthEastWest Corridor (NS-EW) is the largest ongoing highway project in India. It is the second phase of the National Highways Development Project (NHDP), and consists of building 7300 kilometers of four/six lane highways associating Srinagar , Kanyakumari , Kochi , Porbandar and Silchar , at a cost of US$12.317 billion ₹10 ...

  6. Golden Quadrilateral - Wikipedia

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    The main objective of these super highways is to reduce the travel time between the major cities of India, running roughly along the perimeter of the country. The NorthSouth corridor linking Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) and Kanyakumari , and EastWest corridor linking Silchar and Porbandar are additional projects. These highway projects ...

  7. Administrative divisions of India - Wikipedia

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    The administrative divisions of India are subnational administrative units of India; they are composed of a nested hierarchy of administrative divisions.. Indian states and territories frequently use different local titles for the same level of subdivision (e.g., the mandals of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana correspond to tehsils of Uttar Pradesh and other Hindi-speaking states but to talukas of ...

  8. Central Indo-Aryan languages - Wikipedia

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    They are languages much older than Hindi. [4] Seb Seliyer (or at least its ancestor) appear to be Central Zone languages that migrated to the Middle East and Europe ca. 500–1000 CE. To Western Hindi Ethnologue adds Sansi (Sansiboli), Bagheli, Chamari (a spurious language), Bhaya, Gowari (not a separate language), and Ghera.

  9. List of national highways in India - Wikipedia

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    All north-south oriented highways will have even numbers increasing from the north to the south. All east-west oriented highways will have odd numbers increasing from the east to the west. All major Highways will be single digit or double digit in number. Three-digit numbered highways are secondary routes or branches of a main highway.