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The Sanskrit word mleccha does not have a standard Indo-European etymology and has no counterpart in Iranian languages. [14] However, it has cognates in Middle Indo-Aryan languages: Pali milakkha, and Prakrit mliccha, from the latter of which originate Sindhi milis, Punjabi milech, Kashmiri brichun (weep or lament), Western Pahari melech (dirty), Odia mḷecha, Bengali myaloch (dirty). [15]
-ji (IAST: -jī, Hindustani pronunciation:) is a gender-neutral honorific used as a suffix in many languages of the Indian subcontinent, [1] [2] such as Hindi, Nepali and Punjabi languages and their dialects prevalent in northern India, north-west and central India.
Carnival in Italy is a farewell party to eat, drink, and have fun before the limitations and solemnity of Lent.About a month before Ash Wednesday, Italians celebrate over many weekends with parades, masks, and confetti.
Dacoity is a term used for "banditry" in the Indian subcontinent.The spelling is the anglicised version of the Hindi word डाकू (ḍākū); "dacoit" / d ə ˈ k ɔɪ t / is a colloquial Indian English word with this meaning.
Vijay Kumar Singh's 2022 Hindi poetry collection "Chitralekha" has an entire section of 8 poems dedicated to the Ashta-Nayika. The 8 poems each have different Ashta-Nayikas as their protagonist and the individual poems are named after the different Ashta-Nayikas they are about.
In the Indian historian DN Jha's essay "Looking for a Hindu identity", he writes: "No Indians described themselves as Hindus before the fourteenth century" and that "The British borrowed the word 'Hindu' from India, gave it a new meaning and significance, [and] reimported it into India as a reified phenomenon called Hinduism."
An ideology is a set of beliefs or philosophies attributed to a person or group of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely epistemic, [1] [2] in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones". [3]
The historian N. Bhattacharyya provides a working definition of the benefits of sādhanā as follows: [R]eligious sādhanā, which both prevents an excess of worldliness and molds the mind and disposition (bhāva) into a form which develops the knowledge of dispassion and non-attachment. Sādhanā is a means whereby bondage becomes liberation. [6]