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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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)
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.
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.