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  2. List of legendary creatures in Hindu mythology - Wikipedia

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    Dadhi-krā is the name of a divine horse or bird, personification of the morning Sun. Devadatta - The white horse of Kalki. Gandharvi, daughter of Kamadhenu, and is the mother of horses (according to the Ramayana). Farasi Bahari - These are magical green Water Horses that live at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. They are depicted as a horse in ...

  3. Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda - Wikipedia

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    ' The Sun's Seventh Horse ') is a 1992 Indian Hindi film directed by Shyam Benegal and based on the novel The Sun's Seventh Horse by Dharmavir Bharati. It won the 1993 National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. [1] The self-reflexive film is also known for its subversive take on the "Devdas" syndrome. [2]

  4. The Sun's Seventh Horse - Wikipedia

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    The Sun's Seventh Horse (Hindi: सूरज का सातवाँ घोड़ा; Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda) is a 1952 Hindi meta fiction novel by Dharamvir Bharati, one of the pioneers of modern Hindi literature. [1] The novel presents three related narratives about three women: Jamuna, Sati, and Lily.

  5. Horse symbolism - Wikipedia

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    The Horses of Neptune, illustration by Walter Crane, 1893.. Horse symbolism is the study of the representation of the horse in mythology, religion, folklore, art, literature and psychoanalysis as a symbol, in its capacity to designate, to signify an abstract concept, beyond the physical reality of the quadruped animal.

  6. Animal sacrifice in Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    The text of the Rigveda and other Vedas provide detailed description of sacrifices including cattle sacrifice. [ 13 ] The Ashvamedha , a ritual in which a horse was allowed to roam freely for a year, then finally sacrificed, is mentioned in the Vedic texts such as the Yajurveda .

  7. Ashvamedha - Wikipedia

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    The best-known text describing the sacrifice is the Ashvamedhika Parva (Sanskrit: अश्वमेध पर्व), or the "Book of Horse Sacrifice," the fourteenth of eighteen books of the Indian epic poem Mahabharata. Krishna and Vyasa advise King Yudhishthira to perform the sacrifice, which is described at great length. The book ...

  8. Glossary of Hinduism terms - Wikipedia

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    The tenth avatar of Vishnu who is yet to come and will appear as a man on a horse at the end of Kali Yuga. Kama Best understood as aesthetics, the definition of Kama involves sensual gratification, sexual fulfillment, the pleasure of the senses, love, and the ordinary enjoyments of life regarded as one of the four ends of man (purusharthas). Karma

  9. Hindi literature - Wikipedia

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    The first Hindi books, using the Devanagari script or Nāgarī script were Heera Lal's treatise on Ain-i-Akbari, called Ain e Akbari ki Bhasha Vachanika, and Rewa Maharaja's treatise on Kabir. Both books were published in 1795. [citation needed] Munshi Lallu Lal's Hindi translation of Sanskrit Hitopadesha was published in 1809.