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The Sahitya Akademi Award is the second-highest literary honor in India. [citation needed] The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, aims at "promoting Indian literature throughout the world". The Akademi annually confers on writers of "the most outstanding books of literary merit". The awards are given for works published in any of the 24 languages recognised by the akademi ...
Rajatarangini with Hindi commentary by Ramtej Shastri Pandey (Chaukhamba Sanskrit Pratishthan, 1985) Rajatarangini of Kalhana, edited by Vishwa Bandhu (1963–65); a later addition includes the texts of Jonaraja, Srivara and Suka (1966–67) Rajatarangini, Hindi translation by Pandit Gopi Krishna Shastri Dwivedi
Raja (/ ˈrɑːdʒɑː /; from Sanskrit: राजन्, IAST rājan-) is a noble or royal Sanskrit title historically used by some Indian rulers and monarchs and highest-ranking nobles.
Indian honorifics. A Maratha Durbar showing the Chief (Raja) and the nobles (Sardars, Jagirdars, Sarpatil, Istamuradars & Mankaris) of the state. Indian honorifics are honorific titles or appendices to names used in the Indian subcontinent, covering formal and informal social, commercial, and religious relationships.
Raja (name) Raja is a common given name and a surname, derived from Sanskrit राजन् (rajan), meaning "king", "ruler".
In the major, Muslim realm of Hyderabad and Berar, there was a system of ennobling titles for the Nizam's courtiers, conferring a specific rank without any (e)state of their own, not unlike peerage titles without an actual fief in the UK, the highest titles for Hindu nobles being Maharaja Bahadur and Maharaja, above Vant, Raja Rai-i-Rayan ...
Jai Hind. Jai Hind (Hindi: जय् हिन्द्, IPA: [dʒəj ɦɪnd]) is a salutation and slogan that originally meant "Victory to Hindustan ", [1] and in contemporary colloquial usage often means "Long live India" [2] or "Salute to India". Coined by Champakaraman Pillai [3][4] and used during India's independence movement from British ...
The yoni is a metaphor for nature's gateway of all births, particularly in the Shaktism and Shaivism traditions of Hinduism, as well as the esoteric Kaula and Tantra sects. [6] Yoni together with the lingam is a symbol for prakriti, its cyclic creation and dissolution. [24] According to Corinne Dempsey – a professor of Religious Studies, yoni ...