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Sati or suttee [a] is a practice, a chiefly historical one, [1] [2] in which a Hindu widow burns alive on her deceased husband's funeral pyre, the death by burning entered into voluntarily, [3] by coercion, [4] [5] or by a perception of the lack of satisfactory options for continuing to live. [6]
Nepali literature consists of the literature written in the Nepali language.The Nepali language has been the national language of Nepal since 1958. The Nepali language has also been recognized as a "major Indian literary language" by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.
Unleashing Nepal: Sujeev Shakya 2013 Non-fiction City of Dreams: Pranaya SJB Rana: 2015 Short Stories Ayo Gorkhali: A History of the Gurkhas: Tim Gurung 2020 History The Witch Doctor and Other Essays [8] Laxmi Prasad Devkota November 11, 2017 Essays Kathmandruids: Monomyths & Meanymyths: Peter J. Karthak: 2018 Novel The Wayward Daughter ...
Newari literature has a niche readership. Poetry, short stories, essays, novels, travelogues, biographies and religious discourses are the popular genres. A number of literary magazines are published. Translations of Nepal Bhasa literature in English and Nepali appear frequently.
This list of Nepalese poets consists of poets of Neplease ethnic, cultural or religious ancestry either born in Nepal or emigrated to Nepal from other regions of the world. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Nepali literature (Nepali: नेपाली साहित्य) refers to literature written in the Nepali language. The Nepali language has been the national language of Nepal since 1958. [1] Nepali evolved from Sanskrit and it is difficult to exactly date the history of Nepali language literature since most of the early scholars wrote in ...
Bhatta was a polyglot and alongside Nepali, he had studied in Sanskrit, Persian, English and was also proficient in Bengali, Urdu and Nepal Bhasa. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He wrote Kabi Bhanubhakta Ko Jivan Charitra— the biography of Bhanubhakta Acharya , which played a significant role in establishing Acharya as the first poet ( Aadi Kabi ) of Nepali ...
Sati (/ ˈ s ʌ t iː /, Sanskrit: सती, IAST: Satī, lit. ' truthful' or 'virtuous '), also known as Dakshayani (Sanskrit: दाक्षायणी, IAST: Dākṣāyaṇī, lit. 'daughter of Daksha'), is the Hindu goddess of marital felicity and longevity, and is worshipped as an aspect of the mother goddess Shakti.