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  2. Pururavas - Wikipedia

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    Pururavas (Sanskrit: पुरूरवस्, Purūravas) is a character in Hindu literature, a king who served as the first of the Lunar dynasty. [1]According to the Vedas, he is a legendary entity associated with Surya (the sun) and Usha (the dawn), and is believed to reside in the middle region of the cosmos.

  3. Vikramōrvaśīyam - Wikipedia

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    In 1954, Madhu Bose made an Indian Bengali-language film adaptation titled Vikram Urvashi. [11] Vikrama Urvashi is a 1940 Indian Tamil -language film directed by C. V. Raman based on the play. The story of a nymph marrying a noble-born human and leaving her celestial home has been used in 1957 Tamil film Manalane Mangayin Bhagyam .

  4. Category:Bangladeshi given names - Wikipedia

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    1 language. العربية; Edit links ... Pages in category "Bangladeshi given names" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not ...

  5. Tumburu - Wikipedia

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    Tumburu also attends the birth celebrations of the Pandava Arjuna, and welcomes him in Svarga (heaven) when he visits his father, Indra. "A friend of Arjuna", Tumburu also keenly watches Arjuna's battle fought against the Kauravas – the primary antagonists of the epic, and cousins of the Pandavas – on the side of Virata .

  6. Urvashi - Wikipedia

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    Indologist Monier Monier-Williams states that the name means 'widely pervasive' and he suggests that in its first appearances in Vedic texts Urvashi was a personification of dawn. [3] According to the scripture Devi Bhagavata Purana , the apsara is known as Urvashi because she is born from the uru —'thigh'—of the divine-sage Narayana . [ 4 ]

  7. Yayati - Wikipedia

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    Budha had a son with Vaivasvaita Manu's daughter, Ila. Ila's son was Pururavas, who studied under Sage Kashyapa. Pururavas married the apsara Urvashi and had many sons, of whom Ayus was the eldest. Ayus completed his education from Sage Chyavana and married the asura princess Prabha. Ayus's son was Nahusha, who was educated by the Sage Vashistha.

  8. Rishyasringa - Wikipedia

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    According to the Mahabharata, Vibhandaka, a renowned sage and a son of Kashyapa, travels in Mahahrada, when he sees Urvashi, the most beautiful apsara (nymph). Aroused, he emits his seed, which fell into the river. A doe, who is a cursed apsara, swallows it and becomes pregnant due to the sage's miraculous powers.

  9. Hajar Churashir Maa - Wikipedia

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    Hajar Churashir Maa (means Mother of 1084) is story of a mother (Sujata) whose son (Brati), corpse number 1084 [5] in the morgue, was brutally killed by the state because of his ideology of advocating the brutal killing of class enemies, collaborators with the State and counter-revolutionaries within the Party. The story starts on the eve of ...