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  Bengal upto the Guptas
Hindu religious era, and Azilises; the pahlava kings Vonones, Spalirises, Azes II, and Pacores; and the early kuSANa (the guishang branch of Yüeh-chih) kings Kujula and Vima Kadphises were all in Punjab or further west.
It is very likely that the region of varendra was already under the gupta rule under shrIgupta in the late 3rd century AD, ghaTotkaca's father, candragupta I (320–330)'s grandfather and samudragupta (330–375)'s greatgrandfather; in fact, he may have had his original capital somewhere in mAladaha or murshidAbAda.
It is not clear whether this is the candra who is mentioned in the iron pillar in Delhi as having defeated all the kings of bengal.
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 A Short History of Bengal: Ancient Period
The society was basically feudal, and like elsewhere in India, the Gupta period is a golden age in Bengal, with trade and well-minted gold coins.
However, the complete aryanization probably had to wait till the age of the Guptas who were Hindu but supported the Buddhists and Jainas as well.
candra states were mahAyAnI buddhist (as was the first kamboja ruler) in name and in deed at least till the early 11th century, the society in all of Bengal (excepting, naturally, those of the buddhists who had renounced the worldly life and lived in the saGghas)
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 The Guptas
Candra Gupta I, the third king, married a Licchavi princess--an event celebrated in a series of gold coins, thus gained political control in the region of Magadha (east part of India near Calcutta).
Of all the Gupta kings, Chandra Gupta II is reputed to have shown the most chivalrous and heroic qualities.
The later Gupta coinage indicates an economic crisis.
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 Kamboja Dynasty of Bengal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If he and Rajyapala II of the Pala dynasty is one historical personage, then one shall have accept that the Palas dynasty originated from the Kambojas.
Gopala II inherited Magadha and northern Bengal while Narayanapala got rest of the empire including western Bengal.
These two sons of Rajayapala, in all probability, were the usurpers of the ancestral land of Mahipala I, the grand son of Gopala II.
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A Linga named Gangeshvara, worshipped by the Ganga (Skanda Purana, V. I (11) 42.29 be, is found on the southern bank of the Sipra in Ujjain V (i) (ii) 42.24).
Thus, the Kumbha Parva seems to be a ritual bathing festival, mainly associated with the river Ganga, both in its origin and its character.
(II) The Kumbha Parva is held at Prayag when Jupiter enters Aries and the Sun and the Moon are in Capricorn on the new moon day of the month of Magha.
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 Vitasta Annual Number: A Kashmir Sabha, Kolkata Publication
Perhaps, he may be also identical with the writer Candra, mentioned by the Chinese traveller It-sing.
He was a poet and a contemporary of Pravarasena II (c.
It is possible that Matrgupta wrote the poem at the request of the Kashmirian king Pravarasena II who occupied the throne of Kashmir, when Matrgupta retired to Banaras.
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 The Significance of Sanskrit in Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism
The stone pillar inscription11,12 of Samudra Gupta (AD 330 to 380) written in Sanskrit and a late Brahmi script called the Gupta script is an undated inscription incised on an Asokan pillar at Allahabad.
Candra Gupta II (AD 380 to 415) subjugated the Saka territories, and Sanskrit which developed in the Pahlava-Saka Empire gained eminence in the Gupta Empire as evidenced by the
Out of these developed the Gupta writing which was employed from the 4th to the 6th c.
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The political stability of Gupta rule and the presence of a wealthy class of patrons allowed literature, music, drama, painting, and sculpture to flourish in what has been called the classic, or golden, age of Indian art.
The Gupta image of Buddha--with a serene, inward-looking expression, spiral curls lying flat on the head, monastic robe draping the body, and large halo behind the head--influenced depictions of the Buddha for many centuries.
The remaining rulers were James II, 1685-88; his daughter Mary II, who ruled jointly with her husband, William III, until her death in 1694 (William III reigned alone until 1702); and Anne, 1702-14, another daughter of James II.
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- Claudius II (Marcus Aurelius Claudius Gothicus), Roman Emperor, born.
- Claudius II (Marcus Aurelius Claudius Gothicus), Roman Emperor, died.
- Tiberius II Constantinus, Emperor of Byzantium, died.
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 A History of Early Vedanta Philosophy - Part Two
Other important works are: The Selected Works of Hajime Nakamura in 40 volumes; The Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples; A Grand Dictionary of Buddhist Terms, in 3 volumes; The Illustrated Dictionary of Buddhist Terms, Parallel Developments, A Comparative History of Ideas; The Structure of Logic, in two volumes, and many others.
The Rise of Heterodox Grammar and the Decline of Orthodox Grammar (150BC.
Chapter II A Summary of the History of Early Vedanta Philosophy
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During the Gupta period some monasteries joined together to form monastic centres (mahaviharas) that functioned as universities.
Though Buddhist institutions seemed to be faring well under the Guptas, various Chinese pilgrims visiting India between AD 400 and 700 could discern an internal decline in the Buddhist community and the beginning of the reabsorption of Indian Buddhism by Hinduism.
Since the end of World War II, Buddhism in Korea has been hampered by communist rule in North Korea and by the great vitality of Christianity in South Korea.
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 HSTAS 401: HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
T-1, 248-249; T-6 WEEK 8 (2/23-2/27): The "classical age" of the Gupta empire; the decline and fall of the Guptas; the Vakatakas and other feudatories of the Gupta empire (ca.
II (Bombay, 1957) " " : A History of South India (Oxford, 1966) SCHWARTZBERG, Joseph: Historical Atlas of South Asia (Chicago, 1979) SIRCAR, D.C.: Indian Epigraphy (Delhi, 1965) " " : Select Inscriptions Bearing on Ancient Indian History, Vol.I (Calcutta, 1965); Vol.
II (Delhi, 1983) *SMITH, Vincent A.: The Early History of India (Oxford, 1957) *STEIN, M.A. (tr.): Kalhana's Rajatarangini (reprint, Delhi, 1961) *TARN, W.W.: The Greeks in Bactria and India (Cambridge, 1951) *THAPAR, Romila: A History of India, Vol.I (Harmondsworth, 1966) TRIPATHI, R.S.: History of Ancient India (Delhi, 1967)
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 The Mewar Encyclopaedia: V
These include Vikramaditya, also known as Candra or Chandra Gupta II (ca 380-ca 415) who ruled North India; and King Vikramaditya VI who founded the western Chalukya dynasty in AD 1075 and was the legendary Paramara king of Ujjain (see AHAR).
He is said to have ruled over the Malava (Sanskrit for Malwa) kingdom and other regions of India, and had a victory over the Sakas (ancestors of ancient Scythian or Greek tribes) which, in Jain historical texts, issued in the Vikrama era (58 BC) However some scholars doubt his existence.
The Vikramadityas pertinent to this Encyclopaedia are Rawal VIKRAMADITYA I and Maharana VIKRAMADITYA II of Mewar.
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II, Vocabulary, contains Parja, 29 words of a Gadaba dialect not noted in the Linguistic survey of India.
ASIA PL4563.1.M57 1985 %A Mitra, Parimala Candra %D 1988 %T Santhali, the base of world languages %C Calcutta %I Firma K. Mukhopadhyay %p x, 165 pp.
ASIA PL4563.1.M58 1988 %A Mitra, Parimala Candra %D 1991 %T Santhali, a universal heritage %C Calcutta %I Firma K. Mukhopadhyay %p xii, 144 pp.
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 POST-PANINIAN SYSTEMS OF SANSKRIT GRAMMAR
Efforts have been made to elucidate and evaluate the method and technique adopted in the various systems.
Saini has expertised in deciphering the Ancient Indian scripts like Asokan Brahmi, Gupta Brahmi and other Post Gupta scripts along with the modern languages like Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali and French.
Saini has completed 3 minor research projects and one major research projects and one major research project, financed by the University Grants Commission.
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Bonda, Juang, Kuvi, Mundari, Oriya, and Santali (in Oriya script); prefatory matter in English %A Mitra, Parimala Candra %D 1985 %T Samotala bhasha, bhitti o sambhabana %C Kalikata %I Pharma Keelaema %p xiv, 152 pp.
in Bengali and English %A Mitra, Parimala Candra %D 1991 %T Santhali, a universal heritage %C Calcutta %I Firma KLM %p xii, 144 pp.
%E Sen Gupta, Sankar %D 1973 %B The patas and the Patuas of Bengal %O Foreword by Niharranjan Ray %C Calcutta %I Indian Publications %p 144 pp.
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Decline of Zen CHAPTER II HISTORY OF ZEN IN JAPAN 1.
He must be free from thoughtlessness then, for Yoga comes and goes" (Katha Upanisad, ii.
His doctrine exercised a most fruitful influence on many of the great Japanese minds, and undoubtedly has done much to the progress of New Japan.
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 Life and Teaching of Nepalese Siddha Advayavajra
Some are royalty and serve as partons, others are Tibetan like Guru Marpa and Carry out the teachings to preserve them for posterity.
For English translation of the above quotation see," The Life of the Siddha-philosopher Maitri Gupta" by MarkTatz, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 107.4 (1987)p.699.
See Mark Tatz: "The Life of the Siddha philosopher Maitri Gupta" in the Journal of American Oriental Society 107.4 (1987) p.703.
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 Civilization III: Civ of the Week
Nonetheless, the accession of Candra Gupta Maurya ("Chandragupta") in 321 BC is significant because it inaugurated the first Indian empire; the Mauryan dynasty was to rule nearly the entire subcontinent.
Using War Elephants to good effect, he defeated Alexander's successor Seleucus, the ruler of the eastern Greek holdings in Iran and India.
A century later, the disintegration of the Mauryan empire gave rise to a number of feuding kingdoms, the Guptas and Pajputs in the north and Chola, Hoysalas and Pandyas in the south.
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By sawing through the land bridges that tied northeast Africa to the African continent the TAN race frontal lobotomized Africa itself, and as a result, had fabricated the middle-East as a separate geographic entity from the African continent.
She was born Barbara Pierce on June 8, 1925, in Rye, N.Y. When she was 16 and in Connecticut during her Christmas vacation from Ashley Hall in North Carolina, she met George Bush.
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 Chapter
One of the fixed dates,, which was established at a specially early period, and which evidently forms the corner-stone of the whole system^ is the number 218 for the consecration (abhiseka) of Asoka.
Certainly not very much more than this can be proved to be historical in the account of the First Council.
The narrator in the C.V. adheres in his narrative to the Mahaparinibbana-sutta (D. Sutta XVI = D. II, p.
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The Laws of Manu, a holy Hindu book that contains rules for personal conduct, which date, at the latest, in the third century AD, refer to impurity from outcasted persons, as well as from death and menstruation (Dumont 53).
The Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Fa-hsien, who traveled to India during the reign of Candra Gupta II (ruled 376-415 AD), refers to “pollution on approach”; that is, pollution from coming close to an Untouchable or outcast (Basham 66).
During these early times, leather workers (who are impure because they work with dead animal skin) were already disliked, as evidenced by their being heavily taxed (Basham 107).
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Gen Tank I is available with the tech Tanks and Gen Tank II is available with tech Blitzkrieg #DESC_PRTO_Tank ^ ^ ^The rise in the use of semi-automatic and automatic firearms in the late 19th and early 20th century led to the demise of horse-mounted cavalry.
Using their sonar equipment to locate the subs, and their batteries of depth charges and torpedoes to destroy them, the destroyer forces of World War II were the key to the success of many crucial naval operations.
The battleship's importance began to decline in World War II when the increasing use of fighters and bombers launched from aircraft carriers greatly extended the range of naval conflicts.
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 Maravot's News of the World
The political, cultural, and economic trends fostered by the Reagan-Bush era (with the interregnum of Clinton who attempted to rectify the excesses of the Reagan-Bush estate) have had a dire impact on the US, saddling its people and the world with a debt that in the early 80's caused a world-wide recession.
Presidents Reagan, Bush I and Bush II have been allowed to establish the practice of promising their patrons the opportunity to profiteer from their offices and the grim aspect of this profiteering unfortunately involved launching a war on Iraq.
And this seems to be the trend for now, until the people of the United States restrain what appears to be unwanton greed working to the adverse affect of other peoples.
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Volume II: The Pantheons of the Prapañcasāra and the Sāradatilaka.
Vivaraṇa on Vimuktātman's Iṣṭasiddhi (NCat II, 261; VII, 350)
560.8.13.2 Rita Gupta, "Udayana's critique of the doctrine of momentariness", EDOM 1990, 197-226
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 Buddhism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
During the Gupta period some monasteries joined together to form monastic centres (mah(vih(ras) that functioned as universities.
The most famous of these, located at N(land(,had a curriculum that went far beyond the bounds of traditional Buddhism.
Though Buddhist institutions seemed to be faring well under the Guptas, various Chinese pilgrims visiting
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 Session N17 - Poster Session II.
It is unusual in that it has exhibited one probable Type II X-ray burst, possibly putting it in a class with GRO J1744-28 (``The Bursting Pulsar'').
These objects are on average redder than ``normal'', color-selected quasars, and underluminous in the ROSAT 0.1-2 keV band by a factor of 10 or more.
Using Candra capabilities, it is possible to understand whether these peculiar properties are due to an intrinsically different Spectral Energy Distribution or to heavy absorption of a normal optical-X-ray primary emission.
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 Religion of the Samurai
CHAPTER II The Establishment of the Rin Zai School of Zen in Japan
CHAPTER II The Establishment of the Rin Zai[1] School of Zen in Japan.--The introduction of Zen into the island empire is dated as early as the seventh century;[2] but it was in 1191 that it was first established by Ei-sai, a man of bold, energetic nature.
He crossed the sea for China at the age of twenty-eight in 1168, after his profound study of the
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 Hindu bibliography
A comparative study on the theological methodology of Irenaeus of Lyon and Sankaracharya, by Thomas Puttanil, paperback Amazon
Aghora II : Kundalini, by Robert E. Svoboda, Robert Beer (Illustrator) Amazon
Ahimsa in India's destiny: a study in ethico-spiritual Ahimsa, its roots in ancient Indian history and its role as a political weapon, by Virendra Kumar Gupta, Amazon
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 Selected New Acquisitions in South Asia
Main Stack HC440.8.B388 2001 Gupta, Anuj, 1964- Hindi rajyom ka ghamasana / Anuja Gupta.
Main Stack PK2098.22.H55Z87 2003 Tarang, Jaipal Singh, 1929- Rakesanandini Gupta ka srjana-mulyankana / Jayapala Taranga ; bhumika Jayaprakasa Bharati.
Gangadhara Mehera aura Maithilisarana Gupta ke pramukha kavyom mem nari patra / Nalini Kumar# 1.
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