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  2. Himalayan rabbit - Wikipedia

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    By the time the boom ended in 1901, Himalayan rabbits had begun to pop up at rabbit shows around the country. The pelt, which greatly resembles that of ermine, was quickly popular with rabbit breeders who would harvest the valuable fur to sell. Himalayan rabbits were often made into fur coats, sometimes masquerading as authentic ermine.

  3. Sanskrit - Wikipedia

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    The earliest attested Sanskrit text is the Rigveda (Ṛg-veda), a Hindu scripture from the mid- to late-second millennium BCE. No written records from such an early period survive, if any ever existed, but scholars are generally confident that the oral transmission of the texts is reliable: they are ceremonial literature, where the exact ...

  4. Tibetan script - Wikipedia

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    The Tibetan script is a segmental writing system, or abugida, derived from Brahmic scripts and Gupta script, and used to write certain Tibetic languages, including Tibetan, Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Ladakhi, Jirel and Balti. It was originally developed c. 620 by Tibetan minister Thonmi Sambhota for King Songtsen Gampo. [5] [6]

  5. Khasas - Wikipedia

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    Khasas (Sanskrit: खश, IAST: Khaśa) were an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe and a late Janapada kingdom [1] from Himalayan regions of northern Indian subcontinent mentioned in the various historical Indian inscriptions and ancient Indian Hindu and Tibetan literature.

  6. Agama (Hinduism) - Wikipedia

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    Many of these agamas have been translated and published by the Himalayan Academy. [42] The Shaiva Siddhanta also relies on four agamas that do not figure into this canonical list of 28 (the Kālottara, Mataṅga-pārameśvara, Mṛgendra, and Sarvajñānottara) along with two pratiṣṭhā-tantras (Mayasaṅgraha and Mohacūḍottara). [ 41 ]

  7. Hindu texts - Wikipedia

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    Hindu texts or Hindu scriptures are manuscripts and voluminous historical literature which are related to any of the diverse traditions within Hinduism. Some of the major Hindu texts include the Vedas , the Upanishads , and the Itihasa .

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  9. Newar people - Wikipedia

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    Unlike other common-origin ethnic or caste groups in Nepal, the Newars are regarded as an example of a nation community with a relict identity, derived from an ethnically diverse, previously existing polity. The Newar community within it consists of various strands of ethnic, racial, caste and religious heterogeneity, as they are the ...