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  BANGLAPEDIA: Seal, (Acharya) Brajendra Nath   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Seal, (Acharya) Brajendra Nath (1864-1938) philosopher, was born on 3 September 1864 at Kolkata's Rammohan Saha Lane.
Brajendra Nath taught at a number of colleges and also served as a principal.
Brajendra Nath was one of the greatest scholars of his time and was addressed as 'acharya'.
banglapedia.org /HT/S_0169.HTM   (544 words)

  
 Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, , Legends, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis profile, Hirakud Hydroelectric Project is based ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Many thought he was wasting his time, but Rabinderanath Tagore, who had known him from childhood, Brajendra Nath Seal, Professor of Philosophy at Calcutta University, and Sir Nilratan Sircar, his maternal uncle, encouraged him.
Seal took a personal interest in the statistical studies of Mahalanobis and predicted that one-day statistics would become a basic scientific tool.
When in 1917 Seal wanted to look into the examination system of Calcutta University, Mahalanobis was consulted.
www.4to40.com /legends/index.asp?article=legends_pcmahalanobis   (825 words)

  
 Incidents-July 2002
The home of Haripada Seal, a member of the Hindu minority community, was attacked by a group of Islamic fundamentalists.
Haripada’s properties were all looted and his son Rajendra Seal, a tenth grade student, was kidnapped in the attack.
Hindu villagers named Brajendra Nath Biswas, Kartick Chandra Biswas and Sadhin Chandra Biswas were savagely beaten up by a group of Islamic fundamentalists when they refused to give away all of their lands and properties free of cost.
www.mayerdak.com /incid_jul02.htm   (1132 words)

  
 Musician Seal - Online Tips Musician Seal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A royal seal dating to the period of the First Temple has been found in an archeological dig in the City of David, adjacent to the Old City of Jerusalem.
The seal’s inscription has the name of Jehudi, son of Shelemiah, one of the top officials in the court of the last Judean king prior to the destruction of the First Temple, King Zedekiah.
The seal dates from about 580 B.C.E. The seal was found at the site which the is the site...
www.musicianhub.com /musicianseal   (2580 words)

  
 History Book of Cooch Behar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Maharaja Nripendra Narayan banned the practice of slave-keeping ('kritadas pratha') by law in 1884 A.D. For higher studies in his state he established the Victoria College (now A.B.N. Seal College) in 1888.
Famous educationist and intellectual Acharya Brajendra Nath Seal was the Principal of that college.
Maharaja Nripendra Narayan constructed a Brahma Mandir (temple for the Brahmas) in 1888 A.D. and granted lease of land for 30 years.
coochbehar.nic.in /HTMfiles/history_book5.html   (2362 words)

  
 Vedanti - Back issues - May'2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Guwahati: The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup has remanded Amrit Nath, principal of the Rajdhani School, to the police custody for two days in connection with the alleged suicide of his wife, Rekha Nath, on May 20.
Nath was arrested on charges of dowry related harassment and abatement by the Pan Bazar police on May 22 on the basis of an FIR lodged by Birendranath Barman, brother of Rekha, on May 21.
BSS president Brajendra Kumar Brahma said that the power-centred turbulence that has crept into the BTAD, besides installing a fear psychosis, will also provide opportunity for the reactionary and divisive elements.
www.vedanti.com /News/Backup/politicalnews53.htm   (15436 words)

  
 Scottish Church College, Calcutta - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Dhan Gopal Mukerji, socio-cultural critic and first successful Indian man of letters in the United States of America; winner of Newbery Medal (1928)
Brajendra Nath Seal, leading philosopher and thinker of the Brahmo Samaj, Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati University and later the University of Mysore[6]
Justice Amarendra Nath Sen, former Judge, of the Supreme Court of India[34]
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 Chapter Fifteen: Maya-Shakti (The Psycho-Physical Aspect of the Universe)
And, in the Mahabharata, Bhrigu says to Bharadhvaja that plants possess the various senses, for they are affected by heat, sounds, vision (whereby, for instance, the creeper pursues its path to the light), odors and the water which they taste.
I may refer also to such stories as that of the Yamalarjunavriksha of the Srimad Bhagavata mentioned in Professor Brajendra Nath Seal's learned work, The Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus, and Professor S. Das Gupta's scholarly paper on Parinama to which I am indebted for these instances.
Man is said to have passed through all the lower states of Consciousness and is capable of reaching the highest through Yoga.
www.sacred-texts.com /tantra/sas/sas15.htm   (13000 words)

  
 The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Article
E played in the streets of Calcutta with physicists Satyendra Nath Bose and Meghnad Saha, and he, too, would have gone to become a great physicist if chance had not played its part.
When he was professor of physics at the Presidency College, Calcutta, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was approached by Sir Brajendra Nath Seal, then university Professor of Philosophy, who asked the young physicist to help him with enquiring into the examination system by using statistical methods.
Professor Mahalanobis enjoyed the work so much that he gave up physics and fell in love with facts, figures, graphs and charts.
www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20000319/spectrum/main2.htm   (3120 words)

  
 Touched by God
However, Narendra first met Ramakrishna in Calcutta in November 1881 at the house of the Master’s devotee Surendra Nath Mittra.
Some of his brother disciples and thousands of people gave the Swami a wonderful reception: triumphal arches decorated the streets, and his unharnessed carriage was drawn by students in a huge procession with music and religious songs.
Gopallal Seal Villa, a garden house on the bank of the Ganges, was arranged for the Swami and his party.
www.hinduism.co.za /touched.htm   (18208 words)

  
 Tagore, Rabindranath (1861-1941)
A few translations of his poems were subsequently sent to Rothenstein.
At that time the philosopher brajendra nath seal, on his way to England for a conference, took them with him to England.
Observing the interest it had aroused amidst the people he had shown the translations to, Seal urged the poet to come to England.
ptmrot.skynetask.com /Tagore1   (6845 words)

  
 Daily Excelsior... Editorial
From Mysore he went to Calcutta, to hold, what was then the most highly prized University assignment in his subject, the philosophy.
There he took the place of India's greatest modern encyclopaedist, Brajendra Nath seal--a fact which needs to be remembered, for Dr S Radhakrishnan was then less than thirty years old, a newcomer in the realm of Indian scholarship.
Even in Calcutta, unknown to many, he continued to work with our sanskrit pandits, at the same time his faultless english eloquence charmed his pupils and opened before them fresh vistas of thought.
www.dailyexcelsior.com /web1/03sep05/edit.htm   (4349 words)

  
 Daily Excelsior... Editorial
From Mysore he went to Calcutta to hold what was then the most highly prized University assignment in his subject, the King George.
There he took the place of India's greatest modern encyclopaedist, Brajendra Nath Seal--a fact which needs to be remembered, for Dr S Radhakrishnan was then less than thirty years old, a new comer in the realms of Indian scholarship.
Dr S Radhakrishnan's faultless English eloquence charmed his pupils and opened before them fresh vistas of thought.
www.dailyexcelsior.com /web1/04sep05/edit.htm   (5108 words)

  
 Vedanti - Back issues - July'2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Health Commissioner Biren Dutta told that Maniram Baro, Padmini Mahanta, SK Das, Brajendra Nath Sarma and Dipankar Gogoi have been suspended for their negligence of duty in the flood-hit areas.
Sivasagar: Union Minister of State for Defence and Parliamentary Affairs Bijoy Krishna Handique on June 27 visited Majgaon under Mathurapur Police Station where an IED explosion inside a private passenger bus killed six persons and injured 17 others, 12 of them seriously.
The directed the Army officials to extend its helping hand to the civil and police authorities in sealing the inter-state border with Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland which have turned into heavens for the militants to continue their subversive activities inside Assam.
www.vedanti.com /News/Backup/politicalnews43.htm   (16781 words)

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