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  2. Al-Biruni - Wikipedia

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    [20] [28] Al-Biruni stated: [29] [page needed] "Other people, besides, hold this foolish persuasion, that time has no terminus quo at all." He further stated that Aristotle , whose arguments Avicenna uses, contradicted himself when he stated that the universe and matter has a start whilst holding on to the idea that matter is pre-eternal.

  3. List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin - Wikipedia

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    from Hindi and Urdu: An acknowledged leader in a field, from the Mughal rulers of India like Akbar and Shah Jahan, the builder of the Taj Mahal. Maharaja from Hindi and Sanskrit: A great king. Mantra from Hindi and Sanskrit: a word or phrase used in meditation. Masala from Urdu, to refer to flavoured spices of Indian origin.

  4. Brahmacharya - Wikipedia

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    Brahamacarya asrama occupies the first 2025 years of life, roughly corresponding to adolescence. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] Upon the child's upanayanam , [ 38 ] the young person would begin a life of study in the Gurukula (the household of the Guru ) dedicated to learning all aspects of dharma that is the "principles of righteous living".

  5. Urdu Lughat - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] It is published by the Urdu Lughat Board, Karachi. The dictionary was edited by the honorary director general of the board Maulvi Abdul Haq who had already been working on an Urdu dictionary since the establishment of the Urdu Dictionary Board, Karachi, in 1958. [1] [2] [3] Urdu Lughat consists of 22 volumes. In 2019, the ...

  6. Hindustani vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, like all Indo-Aryan languages, has a core base of Sanskrit-derived vocabulary, which it gained through Prakrit. [1] As such the standardized registers of the Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu) share a common vocabulary, especially on the colloquial level. [2]

  7. List of Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize winners for English

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    Sahitya Akademi Translation Prizes are given each year to writers for their outstanding translations work in the 24 ... Urdu: Short Stories: Krishan Chander: 1993 ...

  8. Urdu - Wikipedia

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    By the end of the reign of Aurangzeb in the early 1700s, the common language around Delhi began to be referred to as Zaban-e-Urdu, [33] a name derived from the Turkic word ordu (army) or orda and is said to have arisen as the "language of the camp", or "Zaban-i-Ordu" means "Language of High camps" [32] or natively "Lashkari Zaban" means ...

  9. Urdu Dictionary Board - Wikipedia

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    In 1977, the Board published the first edition of Urdu Lughat, a 22-volume comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language. [2] The dictionary had 20,000 pages, including 220,000 words. [3] In 2009, Pakistani feminist poet Fahmida Riaz was appointed as the Chief Editor of the Board. [4] In 2010, the Board published one last edition Urdu Lughat. [3]