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Dina Sanichar was discovered in a cave in the district of Bulandshahr and was brought to the local district magistrate and collector. [6] [7] He was subsequently sent to the Secundra orphanage at Agra. [6] [8] At the orphanage [9] he was given the name Sanichar (meaning Saturday) because he arrived on a Saturday. [10]
The feral child Dina Sanichar, may have been the inspiration for the character Mowgli in The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. [7] The traditional story has been that the boy was brought to the attention of Bulandshahr's district magistrate after hunters discovered the child in a cave in the district of Bulandshahr.
[20] [21] In 2008 he started a free internet version of it, the first online English–Sinhala dictionary. [22] [23] Kulatunga later admitted that he had infringed the copyright of the Malalasekera English–Sinhala dictionary in creating his software, but he said in 2015 that he no longer infringed on copyrights.
Dina Sanichar as a young man, ca. 1889–1894 Hessian wolf-children [ 19 ] : 15–7 [ 20 ] (1304, 1341 and 1344) lived with the Eurasian wolf in the forests of Hesse: The first boy (1304) was taken by wolves at age 3 and found when 7 or 8 by Benedictine monks, the wolves having cared for him by "surrounding him in cold weather, and fed him the ...
Sinhala is a Unicode block containing characters for the Sinhala and Pali languages of Sri Lanka, and is also used for writing Sanskrit in Sri Lanka. The Sinhala allocation is loosely based on the ISCII standard, except that Sinhala contains extra prenasalized consonant letters, leading to inconsistencies with other ISCII-Unicode script allocations.
Exception from the standard are the romanization of Sinhala long "ä" ([æː]) as "ää", and the non-marking of prenasalized stops. Sinhala words of English origin mainly came about during the period of British colonial rule in Sri Lanka. This period saw absorption of several English words into the local language brought about by the ...
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Mowgli (/ ˈ m aʊ ɡ l i / MOW-glee) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Mowgli stories featured among Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book stories. He is a feral boy from the Pench area in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, India, who originally appeared in Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (collected in Many Inventions, 1893) and then became the most prominent character in the ...