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The physical characteristics of a rudraksha are then described. A rudraksha of the amla fruit size is the best, followed by the size of a berry and the size of the black gram, the lowest. Four types of rudraksha – white, red, yellowish, and black – are declared fit for four Varnas or castes – Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra ...
Rudraksha is a Sanskrit compound word consisting of "Rudra"(Sanskrit: रुद्र) referring to Shiva and "akṣa "(Sanskrit: अक्ष) meaning "eye". [5] [a] [6] Sanskrit dictionaries translate akṣa (Sanskrit: अक्ष) as eyes, [7] as do many prominent Hindus such as Sivaya Subramuniyaswami and Kamal Narayan Seetha; accordingly, rudraksha may be interpreted as meaning "Eye of ...
Mukhi (mukhia) is the title used for a head of community or village elites [1] and their local government in Western India and Sindh. [2] It is derived from the word mukhiya meaning 'foremost', and prior to Indian independence they were the most powerful person in each community, imbued with both civil and judicial powers.
Shri Manik Prabhu and his successors have written many abhangas and bhajans in Marathi and Kannada in praise of lord Dattatreya which are regularly sung at Manik Nagar. [ 77 ] Lal Padris: another Hindu yogi group from western India with roots in the 10th-century and with ideas similar to Nath and Kanphata sampradaya, traces Dattatreya as the ...
Ganjam Venkatasubbiah [2] (23 August 1913 – 19 April 2021), also known as G. V., was a Kannada writer, grammarian, editor, lexicographer, and critic who compiled over eight dictionaries, authored four seminal works on dictionary science in Kannada, edited over sixty books, and published several papers.
The earliest examples of a full-length Kannada language stone inscription (śilāśāsana) containing Brahmi characters with characteristics attributed to those of proto-Kannada in Haḷe Kannaḍa (lit Old Kannada) script can be found in the Halmidi inscription, usually dated c. 450 AD, indicating that Kannada had become an administrative ...
Kundagannada also known as Kundapra bhashi/Kundapura kannada is a regional dialect of Kannada spoken by people residing in the Kundapura, Byndoor, Brahmavar & Hebri taluks of Udupi District. While it maintains the core structure of Kannada, it incorporates some Tulu influences, particularly in local terms and expressions. The language is also ...
the recognition of Indo-Aryan phonological history through the omission of characters representing the sibilants and , [24] retaining only the letters representing sounds of the spoken language of the time; [1] these sibilants were naturally lost in most modern Indo-Aryan languages, though such characters were often retained in their respective ...