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Brewer's: Mahabharata
One of the two great epic poems of ancient India. Its story is the contests between descendants of Kuru and Pandu. (See Kuru.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Mahabharata
(Encyclopedia) MahabharataMahabharataməhäˌbärˈətə [key], classical Sanskrit epic of India, probably composed between 200 b.c. and a.d. 200. The Mahabharata, comprising more than 90,000 couplets,…Krishna, Hindu deity
(Encyclopedia) KrishnaKrishnakrĭshˈnə [key] [Sanskrit,=black], one of the most popular deities in Hinduism, the eighth avatar, or incarnation of Vishnu. Krishna appears in the Mahabharata epic as a…Karnal
(Encyclopedia) KarnalKarnalkərnälˈ [key], city (1991 pop. 176,131), Haryana state, N central India. The town's name is derived from Karna, the rival of Arjuna in the Sanskrit Mahabharata epic. It is…Guwahati
(Encyclopedia) Guwahati Guwahati g&oomacr;ˈwəhäˌtē [key] or Gauhati Guwahati…Husain, M. F.
(Encyclopedia) Husain, M. F. (Maqbool Fida Husain), 1915–2011, Indian painter. Often called the Picasso of India, he is known for brightly colored modernist paintings of mythical and religious…Shiva
(Encyclopedia) Shiva or SivaShivashēˈvə [key], one of the greatest gods of Hinduism, also called Mahadeva. The “horned god” and phallic worship of the Indus valley civilization may have been a…United Provinces , former state, India
(Encyclopedia) United Provinces, former state, N India, now almost coextensive with the modern state of Uttar Pradesh. The United Provinces embraced the plain of the Ganges, the heartland of India.…Brewer's: Mahadi
or Hakem. The Kalif who reigned about 400 years after Mahomet. In one pilgrimage to Mecca he expended six million gold dinars. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Mah-abadean Dynasty
(The). The first dynasty of Persian mythological history. Mah Abad (the great Abad) and his wife were the only persons left on the earth after the great cycle, and from them the world was…Trending
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