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The Union Minister for Human Resource Development Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi giving away ´Sanskrit Mitr Award´ at a function, organised by the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan in New Delhi on August 14, 2003 (Thursday). Jpib2u
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The Higher Education Secretary, Shri Sudeep Banerjee addressing at Sanskrit Week Celebrations, organised by the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (an autonomous body under the Ministry of Human Resource Development), in New Delhi on August 07, 2006. - india -
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The Fire Temple at Suraxany and its surroundings There are several inscriptions on the Ateshgah. They are all in either Sanskrit or Punjabi, with the exception of one Persian inscription that occurs below an accompanying Sanskrit invocation to Lord Ganesh and Jwala Ji.
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Shiva (leftmost) with the Matrikas: (from left) Brahmani, Maheshvari, Kaumari, Vaishnavi, Varahi, Indrani, Chamunda. Matrikas (Sanskrit: mātṝkās, मातृका, lit
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Poetry on stone at the Meguti temple (Aihole inscription) dated 634 CE, in Sanskrit language and old Kannada script.
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Elephant Saluting during Thrissur Pooram. Rajesh Kakkanat Panchavadyam (pancha in Sanskrit means five) is another classical musical ensemble performed in Kerala
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Vine thicket, a typical Jungle (Sanskrit: जंगल) refers to the most dense, more or less impenetrable regions within a tropical rainforest with an abundance of animal and plant life.
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Devimahatmya Sanskrit MS Nepal - hires- am1
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The Vice President Shri Bhairon Singh is being presented a book titled "Good Governance and Ancient Sanskrit Literature" by Ms. Aruna Goel, in New Delhi on May 25, 2003 (Saturday). Jpib2u
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The Union Home Secretary Shri N. Gopala Swamy speaking at a Seminar on "Teaching of Samskrit through Samskrit", organised by NCERT under the National Sanskrit Project, " in New Delhi on April 8, 2003 (Tuesday). Jpib2u
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The Union Minister for Human Resource Development Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi inaugurates ´Bhasa Mandakini´ on Gyan Darshan with the launching of Sanskrit Net in New Delhi on September 5, 2003 (Friday). Jpib2u
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Mandakini near the town of Guptakashi. The prefix "mand" (Sanskrit) means "calm" and "unhurried", and Mandakini thus signifies "she who flows calmly".
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The Union Minister for Human Resource Development Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi inaugurates two newly constructed buildings of the Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth in New Delhi on February 6, 2003 (Thursday). Jpib2u
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Mandakini flows to Rudraprayag to join Alaknanda. The prefix "mand" (Sanskrit) means "calm" and "unhurried", and Mandakini thus signifies "she who flows calmly"
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A photo of space showing mandala like shapes. Mandala (मण्डल) is a Sanskrit word that means "circle". In the Hindu and Buddhist religious traditions, their sacred art often takes a mandala form
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Rashtrapati Bhavan (Sanskrit for 'President House / Presidential Palace') is the official residence of the President of India, located in New Delhi, Delhi, India. Until 1950 it was known as "Viceroy's House" and served as the residence of the Viceroy of India.
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An elephant carrying Thidambu during Thrissur Pooram festival in Kerala, south India. Rajesh Kakkanatt Panchavadyam (pancha in Sanskrit means five) is another classical musical ensemble performed in Kerala
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Westindischer Maler um Gita Govinda by Jayadeva. The movement spread rapidly from northern India into the south, with the Sanskrit poem Gita Govinda of Jayadeva (12th century AD) becoming a landmark of devotional, Krishna-based literature.
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(Arunachaleswara in Sanskrit) is a noted Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Shiva, located at the bottom of the Annamalai hill in Thiruvannamalai town in Tamilnadu, India.
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Indian Space Research Organization, India's maiden lunar mission Chandrayaan-1, or Moon Craft in ancient Sanskrit, successfully takes off at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, about 100 kilometers (63 miles) north of Chennai, India
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The Great Stupa at Shambhala Mountain Center, Colorado, USA, a Tibetan-style stupa or chorten. A stupa (from Sanskrit: m., स्तूप, stūpa, Pāli: "thūpa", literally meaning "heap") is a mound-like structure containing Buddhist relics, once thought to be places of Buddhist worship, typically the remains of a Buddha or saint.
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Music unites. What better proof we need than Carnatic music. Its trinity sang their kritis in Telugu and Sanskrit in Tanjore district; Purandaradasa in Kannada. Annamacharya in Telegu. Arunagirinathar in Tamil. Dr.kalam. tp1
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Craftsman making Wheel of Dharma in Xining. By reurinjan. The Dharmacakra (Sanskrit) or Dhammacakka (Pāli), Tibetan chos kyi 'khor lo, Chinese fălún 法輪, "Wheel of Dharma" or "Wheel of Law" is a symbol that has represented dharma, the Buddha's teaching of the path to enlightenment, since the early period of Indian Buddhism.
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Kheer.
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Kannada language
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Jonathan Greeley, Dhankar Gompa, photographed May 29, 2004. Jonathan Greeley. Gompa and ling are ecclesiastical fortifications of learning, lineage and sadhana (that may be understood as a conflation of a fortification, a monastery or nunnery, and a university (Sanskrit: vihara), located in Tibet, Ladakh (India), Nepal, and Bhutan.
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The Kalidas Smarak at Ramtek
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Koodiyattam.
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Sharabha
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Indian Space Research Organization Chairman G. Madhavan Nair looks on during a press conference after the successful launch of India's maiden lunar mission Chandrayaan-1, or Moon Craft in ancient Sanskrit, at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, north of Chennai, India, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008. India launched its first mission to the moon Wednesday, rocketing a satellite up into the pale dawn sky in a two-year mission to redraw maps of the lunar surface.