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  2. List of English words of Sanskrit origin - Wikipedia

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    from Sanskrit भक्ति "bhakti", portion or more importantly, devotion. Brinjal from Portuguese bringella or beringela, from Persian بادنجان badingān, probably from Sanskrit vātiṅgaṇa. [13] Buddha from Sanskrit बुद्ध buddha, which means "awakened, enlightened", refers to Siddhartha Gautama, founder of Buddhism.

  3. List of Indic loanwords in Indonesian - Wikipedia

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    Sanskrit is also the main source for neologisms; these are usually formed from Sanskrit roots. For example, the name of Jayapura city (former Hollandia) and Jayawijaya Mountains (former Orange Range) in the Indonesian province of Papua were coined in the 1960s; both are Sanskrit origin name to replace its Dutch colonial names. Some Indonesian ...

  4. Ashta Nayika - Wikipedia

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    The Ashta-Nayika is a collective name for eight types of nayikas or heroines as classified by Bharata in his Sanskrit treatise on performing arts - Natya Shastra. The eight nayikas represent eight different states ( avastha ) in relationship to her hero or nayaka . [ 1 ]

  5. Indo-European vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    For Sanskrit, Avestan, Old Persian, Parthian, the third-person singular present indicative is given. Where useful, Sanskrit root forms are provided using the symbol √ . For Tocharian , the stem is given.

  6. Nykaa - Wikipedia

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    In April 2012, Falguni Nayar, a former managing director at Kotak Mahindra Capital Company, founded Nykaa [6] as an ecommerce portal curating a range of beauty and wellness products. [7] [8] The brand name Nykaa is derived from the Sanskrit word nayaka, meaning actress or "one in the spotlight". [9]

  7. Sanskrit epigraphy - Wikipedia

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    Sanskrit epigraphy, the study of ancient inscriptions in Sanskrit, offers insight into the linguistic, cultural, and historical evolution of South Asia and its neighbors. Early inscriptions , such as those from the 1st century BCE in Ayodhya and Hathibada , are written in Brahmi script and reflect the transition to classical Sanskrit .

  8. Tanishq - Wikipedia

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    Tanishq made the beauty pageant crowns for the Femina Miss India 2007. [6] By 2008, Tanishq had 105 stores in 71 cities in India. [7] In 2011, the Tanishq group launched the sub-brand called Mia for working women. [8] In November 2012, Tanishq opened its 150th showroom in India. [9] Deepika Padukone became the brand ambassador of Tanishq in ...

  9. Sanskrit - Wikipedia

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    Sanskrit (/ ˈ s æ n s k r ɪ t /; attributively संस्कृत-; [15] [16] nominally संस्कृतम्, saṃskṛtam, [17] [18] [d]) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. [20] [21] [22] It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the ...