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  2. Puranas - Wikipedia

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    John Zephaniah Holwell, who from 1732 onwards spent 30 years in India and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767, described the Puranas as "18 books of divine words". [106] British officials and researchers such as Holwell, states Urs App, were orientalist scholars who introduced a distorted picture of Indian literature and Puranas as ...

  3. Epic-Puranic chronology - Wikipedia

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    The Bhagavata Purana [3.11.18-20] (c. 500-1000 CE) gives a matching description of the yuga lengths in divine years. The Kali Yuga is the present yuga . According to Puranic sources , Krishna's departure marks the end of Dvapara Yuga and the start of Kali Yuga , [ note 2 ] which is dated to 17/18 February 3102 BCE , [ 18 ] [ 19 ] twenty years ...

  4. List of Padma Shri award recipients (2020–2029) - Wikipedia

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    18 Mouma Das: Sports West Bengal 19 Srikant Datar: Literature and Education – [E] 20 Narayan Debnath: Art West Bengal 21 Chutni Devi: Social Work Jharkhand 22 Dulari Devi: Art Bihar 23 Radhe Devi: Art Manipur 24 Shanti Devi: Social Work Odisha 25 Wayan Dibia Art Indonesia 26 Dadudan Gadhvi: Literature and Education Gujarat 27 Parshuram ...

  5. Adbhuta Ramayana - Wikipedia

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    The Adbhuta Ramayana is a Śāktaḥ Sanskrit work. It is considerably more obscure than both the Valmiki Ramayana as well as Tulsidas’ Awadhi version entitled Ramacharitamanasa, northern India's most popular version of the Ramayana story. [1] Scholarly analysis of its content and text history has, to this point, been minor.

  6. Itihasa-Purana - Wikipedia

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    [23] The Lunar dynasty ( IAST : Candravaṃśa ) is said to be descended from moon-related deities ( Soma or Chandra ). [ 24 ] According to the Shatapatha Brahmana , Pururavas was the son of Budha (himself often described as the son of Soma) and the gender-switching deity Ila (born as the daughter of Manu ). [ 25 ]

  7. List of Jains - Wikipedia

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    He established India's first modern shipyard, first aircraft factory and first car factory in india [17] Seth Hukumchand – Cotton King of India [18] [19] Ajit Jain – Indian-American business executive [20] Anshu Jain – Indian-born British business executive [21] Bhavarlal Jain – Chairman of Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd. [22]

  8. List of Brahmin dynasties and states - Wikipedia

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    Aryacakravarti Dynasty which was ruled by Tamil Brahmins; Baghochia Dynasty was founded by Raja Bir Sen and were the ruling dynasty of Hathwa Raj and Bans Gaon Estate. The Cadet branch of the family also ruled Tamkuhi Raj, Salemgarh Estate, Ledo Gadi, Kiajori estate and Kharna Ghatwali.

  9. Brahma Kumaris - Wikipedia

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    Brahma Kumaris believe God to be an incorporeal point of light. The Brahma Kumaris use the term "Supreme Soul" to refer to God. They see God as incorporeal and eternal , regarding him as a point of living light like a human soul but lacking a physical body, as he does not enter the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth .