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India, officially the Republic of India, [j] [20] is a country in South Asia.It is the most populous country in the world and the seventh-largest by area.Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; [k] China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the ...
Sri Lanka, [c] historically known as Ceylon, [d] and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.
Sanskrit (/ ˈ s æ n s k r ɪ t /; attributively संस्कृत-, saṃskṛta-; [15] [16] nominally संस्कृतम्, saṃskṛtam, IPA: [sɐ̃skr̩tɐm] [sɐmskr̩tɐm] [17] [18] [d]) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
The practice of pranayama (focusing on the breath) is mentioned in hymn 1.5.23 of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, [109] and pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses) is mentioned in hymn 8.15 of Chandogya Upanishad. [109] [note 7] The Jaiminiya Upanishad Brahmana (probably before the 6th c. BCE) teaches breath control and repetition of a mantra. [111]
It studies questions such as how monopoly, rent-seeking behaviour, and externalities should impact government policy. [ 179 ] [ 180 ] Historians have employed political economy to explore the ways in the past that persons and groups with common economic interests have used politics to effect changes beneficial to their interests.
Linux (/ ˈ l ɪ n ʊ k s /, LIN-uuks) [15] is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, [16] an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.
On 23 May 2008, the Union Government announced a 3.2 billion rupee (US$80 million) relief package for the victims of the riots. [231] In contrast, Amnesty International 's annual report on India in 2003 claimed the "Gujarat government did not actively fulfill its duty to provide appropriate relief and rehabilitation to the survivors". [ 121 ]