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The Sermesianoi were a mixed population, which included the descendants of Roman ( Byzantine) Christians, whom the Avars had captured in the Balkan Peninsula and settled in the region of Sirmium. [3] [4] Kuber had been made governor of the region by the Avar Khagan. [5] [6] Kuber's subjects called themselves Sermesianoi, [6] but the Byzantines ...
Kubera ( Sanskrit: कुबेर, IAST: Kubera) also known as Kuvera, Kuber and Kuberan, is the god of wealth, and the god-king of the semi-divine yakshas in Hinduism. [3] He is regarded as the regent of the north ( Dikpala), and a protector of the world ( Lokapala ). His many epithets extol him as the overlord of numerous semi-divine species ...
Tumburu. Tumburu ( Sanskrit: तुम्बुरु, romanized : Tuṃburu) is the foremost among the gandharvas, the celestial musicians of Hindu mythology. [1] Accounts depict him performing in the courts of the deities Kubera and Indra, and as singing the praises of Vishnu. He is said to lead the gandharvas in their singing.
Alaka. Alaka ( Sanskrit: अलका, romanized : Alakā ), also called Alakapuri or Alkavati, is a city featured in Hinduism. It is the home of Kubera, the king of a race called the yakshas and the god of wealth. [1] The Mahabharata mentions this city as the capital of the yaksha Kingdom. This city is said to rival Amaravati, the capital of ...
Kuber was the ruler of a mixed population in the Avar Khaganate, including the descendants of the prisoners of war whom the Avars had captured in the Balkan Peninsula and settled around Sirmium. [8] [6] [18] He was made governor by the khagan. [11] [19] Historian Samuel Szádeczky-Kardoss – who accepts Kuber's identification as Kubrat's son ...
National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation (NSKFDC) was set up in January 1997 as a non profit company under Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India to empower the Manual Scavengers, Safai Karamcharis and their dependents to break away their traditional occupation, depressed social condition and ...
The Yakshas ( Sanskrit: यक्ष, IAST: Yakṣa, Pali: Yakkha) are a broad class of nature spirits, usually benevolent, but sometimes mischievous or capricious, connected with water, fertility, trees, the forest, treasure and wilderness. [4] [5] They appear in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist texts, as well as ancient and medieval era temples of ...
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