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In hydrology, an oceanic basin (or ocean basin) is anywhere on Earth that is covered by seawater. Geologically, most of the ocean basins are large geologic basins that are below sea level.
The garrison of Kerak posed little threat to the Muslims and the crushing defeat at the Battle of Hattin meant that no relief force would arrive soon, allowing the Ayyubids to take a relaxed approach to their siege and wait for the Crusaders to surrender. The Ayyubids had already failed in their attempt to capture Kerak in 1183 and 1184 ...
The scholar G.V. Davane studied the occurrences of the term samudra in the Rigveda and concluded that the term means "terrestrial ocean". [3] The Rigveda also speaks of a western and eastern Samudra (10.136.5-6). And in RV 7.6.7 there is an upper and a lower Samudra, where the upper Samudra seems to be a heavenly ocean.
Kerak Castle (Arabic: قلعة الكرك, romanized: Qal'at al-Karak) is a large medieval castle located in al-Karak, Jordan. It is one of the largest castles in the Levant . Construction began in the 1140s, under Pagan and Fulk, King of Jerusalem .
Saladin, a Sunni Muslim and the leader of the Muslim forces, decided that the Kerak castle would be an ideal target, both to protect the ability of Muslims to travel freely between Egypt to Damascus and to dissuade future Christian attacks on Mecca. [6] Demonstrations of war machines used during the siege of Kerak in Kerak Castle Museum
Deep Ocean Mission (informally known as Samudrayaan [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] program, from Sanskrit: Samudra 'Sea', Yāna 'Craft, Vehicle') is an Indian ...
The Kshira Sagara is the site of the legend of the Samudra Manthana, the churning of the cosmic ocean. At the suggestion of Vishnu, the devas and asuras churned the primeval ocean in order to obtain amrita, the elixir of immortality. To churn the ocean, they used the serpent-king, Vasuki as the churning rope.
Samudra arati or worship of the sea by disciples of the Govardhan Matha at Puri. The Samudra arati is a daily tradition started by the present Shankaracharya of Puri 9 years ago to honour the sacred sea. [37] The daily practise includes prayer and fire offering to the sea at Swargadwar in Puri by disciples of the Govardhana matha of the ...