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  2. Bhai Dooj - Wikipedia

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    Bhau Beej, or Bhav Bij (Marathi: भाऊ बीज) or Bhai Beej amongst the Marathi, Gujarati and Konkani-speaking communities in the states of Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat and Karnataka. Another name for the day is Yamadwitheya or Yamadvitiya , after a legendary meeting between Yama the god of Death and his sister Yamuna (the famous river) on ...

  3. Diwali - Wikipedia

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    The last day of the festival, the second day of the bright fortnight of Kartik, is called Bhai Duj (literally "brother's day" [152]), Bhau Beej, Bhai Tilak or Bhai Phonta. It celebrates the sister-brother bond, similar in spirit to Raksha Bandhan but it is the brother that travels to meet the sister and her family.

  4. Dvitiya - Wikipedia

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    Dvitiya. Dvitiya (Sanskrit: द्वितीय, romanized: Dvitīya) also referred to as Beej (Sanskrit: बीज, romanized: Bīja) and Dooj (Sanskrit: दुजा, romanized: Dujā) is the Sanskrit word for "second", [1] and is the second day of the lunar fortnight of the Hindu calendar.

  5. Saat Bhai Champa - Wikipedia

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    Saat Bhai Champa (Bengali: সাত ভাই চম্পা, [1] Sāt Bhāi Champā) [2] or Sat Bhai Chompa is a popular folk tale in the Bengal region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent. [3] The story was first officially published by Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder in the book Thakurmar Jhuli in 1907.

  6. Bengali vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Bengali is typically thought to have around 100,000 separate words, of which 16,000 (16%) are considered to be তদ্ভব tôdbhôbô, or Tadbhava (inherited Indo-Aryan vocabulary), 40,000 (40%) are তৎসম tôtśômô or Tatsama (words directly borrowed from Sanskrit), and borrowings from দেশী deśi, or "indigenous" words, which are at around 16,000 (16%) of the Bengali ...

  7. List of Bangladeshi spices - Wikipedia

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    Though English translation is black cumin, the term black cumin is also used as English translation of Nigella sativa, kalonji Vinegar: সির্কা Shirka Dried ginger: শুকানো আদা গুড়ো Shukano Ada Gura Mostly powdered Indian bay leaf: তেজ পাতা Tej pata Sesame seed: তিল Teel Heeng (Asafoetida)

  8. Tirukkural translations into Bengali - Wikipedia

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    The second translation was by E. C. Sastri in 1974. [1] The third translation appeared in 1993 by N. Ramanuja Das, [1] which was published in Khardah in West Bengal. [3]: 36 The second and third translations too were made in prose. There appears to be another translation by T. N. Senapathy, the details of which are not known.

  9. Bīja - Wikipedia

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    These seeds do not have specific linguistic meaning nor are they name mantras, but they may stand for specific principles, deities, powers, or ideas. [6] The best-known bīja syllable is Om, first found in the Hindu scriptures the Upanishads. In Buddhism, the most important seed syllable is the letter A bija.