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- Conch (4541 bytes)
40: ...] in shell playing is critical. Most shells will only naturally play one note, but with pitch manipula...
45: ... the beginning of the war of Kurukshetra in the [[Mahabharata]], the famous Hindu epic. The conch shell is a de... - Ashoka (15187 bytes)
5: ... ancient [[Bharata]] ([[India]]), after the famed Mahabharata rulers, to unify such a vast territory under his ...
36: ...evious form of the Buddha), the tree under which enlightenment happened, and the burial mound where th...
62: ... stars [[Shahrukh Khan]] as Ashoka and focuses mainly on his warring period. - Biography (6028 bytes)
8: ...habharata are also iographies. These biographies only detailed accomplishments. The [[Judaism|Jewish]...
16: ...nformation and knowledge. During this time, the only repositories of knowledge and records of early h... - Caste (32815 bytes)
5: ...part of the Rig Veda (the "family books," (2-7). Only the Purusha Sukta hymn (Rig Veda 10:90) mentions...
20: ...e Brahman the privilege of reading the Veda, but only so far as it is taught and explained to them by ...
39: ...eir caste duty was to slay enemies.They were the only caste allowed to rule.
60: ...''[[Manusmriti]]'' it is asserted that there are only four varnas, which leads one to the conclusion t...
72: Unlike the Varna caste system, where one could not ch... - India (27950 bytes)
5: ...imes onwards, though its contemporary use is unevenly applied due to domestic disputes over how repres...
71: ...n small towns and villages. While India receives only around three million foreign visitors a year, to...
79: ... second most populous country in the world, with only China having a larger population. Language, reli...
103: ...ndian Writing in English| and English]]. India's only [[Nobel Prize for Literature|Nobel laureate in l...
105: ...llywood]], based in [[Mumbai]], which produces mainly commercial [[Hindi]] films. Cinema in other lang... - History of India (31279 bytes)
20: ...e, such as Spices and Silk. Initially interested only in trade with India, the Europeans took advantag...
162: ... policies, she called for elections in [[1977]], only to suffer electoral defeat at the hands of [[Mo...
223: * Historical Figures and Topics: [[Mahabharata]]--[[Bimbisara]]--[[Ajatashatru]]--[[Buddha]]--[[... - Hinduism (49198 bytes)
6: ...340;न धर्म'''; commonly called ''Sanātana Dharma'', roughly transla...
19: ...ty, with the personal Gods, different aspects of only One Supreme Being, like a single beam of light s...
21: ...e things that unites all hindus is the quest for enlightenment and to free oneself from the cycle of r...
25: ...([[Ramayana]]), the Prince of Ayodhya, Krishna ([[Mahabharata]]), Buddha, and Kalki.
27: ...he view of Hinduism in the West. Smartism is the only branch of Hinduism that adopts these ideas stric... - Atlantis (41399 bytes)
12: ...]]'' (21e - 25d) and his ''[[Critias]]'' are the only written accounts of Atlantis; in these Plato giv...
20: ...nd described a class of [[earthquake]]s that suddenly, by a violent motion, opened up huge mouths and ...
23: ...world: it showed an inner continent, a compact mainland surrounded by sea, and this was surrounded by ...
36: ...ct that is absent in Plato, who describes them mainly as a military threat to the Greeks), and describ...
38: ...e references to this, and the myth was published only posthumously, in the ''[[Silmarillion]]'' ([[197... - Ancient India (31279 bytes)
20: ...e, such as Spices and Silk. Initially interested only in trade with India, the Europeans took advantag...
162: ... policies, she called for elections in [[1977]], only to suffer electoral defeat at the hands of [[Mo...
223: * Historical Figures and Topics: [[Mahabharata]]--[[Bimbisara]]--[[Ajatashatru]]--[[Buddha]]--[[... - Ancient Indian science and technology (21581 bytes)
28: ...tiquity. The success of Indian mathematics was mainly due to the fact that Indians had a clear concept...
73: ... practice of yoga have crystallized. But, it was only around 200 BC that all the fundamentals of yoga ...
81: ...ral Asia]]. Sometimes, such paintings depict not only [[Buddha]] but [[Hindu]] deities such as [[Shiva...
95: In mainland India of today, there are several marvels of ...
106: ... two groups of warring cousins. The age when epic Mahabharata was written is variously dated around 800 BC to 1... - Mauryan (48769 bytes)
26: ...a are same people as the '''Harahunas''' of the [[Mahabharata]] (II.32.12). They were located in Herat/Aria acc...
38: ...E, after conquering the Nanda Empire when he was only about 20 years old.
85: [[Image:MauryanCastCopperCoinLate3rdCenturyBCE.jpg|thumb|left|Mauryan cast coppe...
117: ...[[Kautilya]]'s ''[[Arthashastra]]'' contains not only maxims on ancient statecraft, but also unambiguo... - Yoga (18820 bytes)
23: ...he practitioner to pursue his or her own path to enlightenment, depending on personality and inclinati...
28: ... Yoga is religion and that religion is Hinduism. Only when the word "religion" is defined as "adoratio...
38: ...amily members. The book is contained within the [[Mahabharata]], and is thought to have been written some time ...
65: ...o meditation on a corpse! While much tantra certainly, through its many texts (see kaularvatantra, mah...
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