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  Nyasa - LoveToKnow 1911
NYASA, the third in size of the great lakes of Central Africa, occupying the southern end of the great rift-valley system which traverses the eastern half of the equatorial region from north to south.
The sides of the valley in which Nyasa lies, which are somewhat irregular towards its southern end, take a decided character of fault scarps in the northern third, and are continued as such beyond the northern extremity.
Nyasa, reached in 1859 both by David Livingstone (from ' l ithe south) and by the German traveller Albrecht Roscher (from the east), was explored by the former to about 11°, and to its northern end by E. Young in 1876.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Nyasa   (1131 words)

  
 Lilian's Lovebird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nyasa species is one of the least studied of all lovebird species.
Recently, cases of Nyasa Lovebird poisoning have intensified although it is not known why poachers are poisoning the birds.
Nyasa Lovebirds have proved to be a difficult species to rear in captivity.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nyasa_Lovebird   (330 words)

  
 Nyasa -- divinity in the body   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The word Nyasa means placing and refers to a large component of tantrik ritualism in which the practitioner touches various parts of the body at the same time pronouncing a mantra and visualising a devata or a bija (root) mantra.
Matrika Nyasa is a form where the 50 letters of the Sanskrit alphabet are placed on the body.
For example, in the ritual worship of Bala, there are optional forms such as the Nine Yoni Nyasa, relating to the nine triangles in her yantra and an Arrow Nyasa, related to the five flowering arrows she holds in one of her hands.
www.shivashakti.com /nyasa.htm   (409 words)

  
 What is Nyasa - Tantra Tips
Nyasa is the conscious act of touching or placing the fingers or hands on sacred, sensitive, or medicinally active points of the body.
In the case of nyasa during tantric maithuna (sacred sexuality), the male anoints each part of the female with aromatic oils, ashes, or sandalwood paste, and the touching and mantra infusion both sanctifies each body part, arouses it sensually, and creates empathy, or connection, between the partners.
In eastern spiritual terms, nyasa is a consecration, a ritual protection (through invocation and the creation of sacred space *within* the body), sensuality and foreplay (in the case of maithuna), and a physicalized meditation on divinity of the the body itself.
www.umaatantra.com /what_is_nyasa.html   (614 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Nyasa, Lake, Africa (African Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
Lake Nyasa, the third largest lake in Africa, is bordered by Tanzania in the north and northeast, by Mozambique in the east, and by Malawi in the south and west.
The lake is bounded by steep mountains, except in the south.
Lake Nyasa was visited and named by the Scottish missionary David Livingstone in 1859.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/Nyasa-La.html   (240 words)

  
 History Of NYASA
NYASA is one of only two regional Africanist organizations in the United States providing the opportunity, particularly for Africanists throughout New York and the Northeastern United States to have discourse about developments in Africa and the African Diaspora.
NYASA provides avenues for Africanists and their allies to present papers on various subject matters; nurture an atmosphere of cultural interaction among diplomats, scholars, teachers and students; and create a link to teaching and pedagaogical techniques among elementary, secondary, and college teachers.
The first annual conference was in 1974 at SUNY New Paltz, and the second annual conference was at Syracuse University in 1975, the same year NYASA was incorporated as a nonprofit organization.
www.newpaltz.edu /nyasa/history.html   (272 words)

  
 NYASA - Online Information article about NYASA
The sides of the valley in which Nyasa lies, which are somewhat irregular towards its southern end, take a decided See also:
mission station of Livingstonia, the first to be established on the shores of Nyasa.
In the southern half the coast is highest in about 13° to' S., where the Mapangi hills rise to 3000ft.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /NUM_ORC/NYASA.html   (1359 words)

  
 Profile - Malawi
The total area of the country is 118,484 sq km (45,747 sq mi), nearly one-fifth of which is water surface, mainly Lake Nyasa and three smaller lakes.
By the 16th century a Malawi kingdom, from which the present name of the country is derived, had a prospering trade with the coastal areas of Mozambique.
Jesuit missionaries from Portugal visited the territory near Lake Nyasa as early as the 17th century, but the lake probably was not known to Europeans until the Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone reached its shores in 1859.
www.inadev.org /profile_-_malawi.htm   (1770 words)

  
 Nyasa Guru’s story of ups and downs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Like the moment Nyasa Gurus’ Tumpale started playing on the airwaves—those of us that follow Malawian music instantly knew that this was something different, something very, very different.
Nyasa Gurus’ 12-track album Nthawi——which has hits like the single Tumpale, Linda Madzi Apite, Mwalaula Dziko, Suzie (which features the sultry voiced Miyanda), the title track Nthawi and on the flip side, Ntonjani, Nakupenda (featuring Taliban), Ndife a Nyasa, Chikondi Chanu and Timutamande is way out of the ordinary.
Nyasa’s walk from core dancehall to whatever they fail to name has attracted a lot of descriptions from the peers they started off with.
www.nationmalawi.com /articles.asp?articleID=14706   (1602 words)

  
 NYASA
The New York African Studies Association (NYASA), founded in 1967, traces its roots to the SUNY African Studies Committee.
NYASA is one of the only two regional Africanist organizations in the United States of America providing opportunity, particularly for Africanists throughout New York and the Northeastern United States, to have discourse about developments in Africa and the African Diaspora.
The NYASA conference will provide us, our colleagues, students, and the community with a plethora of information and sweet inspiration along with a heightened awareness of issues, problems and solutions pertinent to Africa and the African Diaspora for the new millennium.
www.brockport.edu /nyasa/index.html   (182 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Nyasa,
Lake Nyasa, the third largest lake in Africa, is bordered by Tanzania in the north and northeast, by Mozambique in the east, and
Ruvuma, river, c.450 mi (724 km) long, rising in N Mozambique, near Lake Nyasa and flowing E to the Indian Ocean.
Shire or Shiré, river, c.250 mi (400 km) long, flowing from the southern end of Lake Nyasa, Malawi, SE Africa, to the Zambezi River in central Mozambique.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Nyasa,   (539 words)

  
 Dakshinamurti Samhita
Nyasa or touching the various parts of the body with mantras is an integral part of Tantra.
The Sodha Nyasa (sixfold nyasa), which is part of the daily worship of Tripurasundari, is here for the first time translated into English, from the work called Nityotsava, itself a commentary on the famous Kalpasutras of Parashuram.
The nyasa of Dakini should thus be performed in the 16 petals of the Vishuddha in the throat, with 16 golden letters.
www.astrojyoti.com /MahashodhaNyasa.htm   (2412 words)

  
 Nyasa Proposal
The Nyasa Lovebird (Agapornis nigrigenis) is rare and endemic to Malawi and its distribution is confined to the Liwonde area.
To define the ecological status of the Nyasa Lovebird, including population demography.
To identify the preferred habitat and biogeography of the Nyasa Lovebird using GIS spatial analysis.
www.africanlovebirdsociety.com /Nyasa/proposal.html   (1272 words)

  
 Lake Nyasa :: the third largest lake in Africa :: Kyela Mbamba Bay
In contrast to other lakes the water of lake Nyasa is bilharzias free.
Though Lake Nyasa does not receive many tourists, the lake is magnificently attractive and is rich in crocodiles and hippopotamus.
For Fish lovers, Lake Nyasa is biologically the most diverse lake, containing approximately 30% of world's cichlid species (colorful fish which are easily seen in the lake's clear water).
www.utalii.com /Off_the_normal_path/Lake_Nyasa_Tanzania.htm   (290 words)

  
 Mlaka, Yamada, Nyasa stage Warehouse jam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
It was Mlaka Maliro and the Nyasa Gurus on schedule, but the coming in of Japanese Kohei Yamada and Francis ‘Dangoman’ Kadango of the Manga Mabuleki accolade was even more welcome.
The Nyasa Gurus came on stage to face the same problem of sound output, until the young voices had to break for a moment and give time for sound engineers to work on the array of instruments.
When the gods smiled at the people working on the equipment, the dance was back on its feet and the show was blooming.
www.nationmalawi.com /articles.asp?articleID=18017   (222 words)

  
 Abstract of Ngatunga (2001)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Lake Nyasa fish fauna comprises more than 1000 species, mainly cichlids, and is thus unique among freshwater lakes.
In Lake Nyasa small scale fishery exploits the inshore resources, principal fish taken are mainly cichlids which comprise up to 90% of the total landings.
The six categories of biodiversity values relevant to Lake Nyasa are presented and discussed and the need to maintain biodiversity in Lake Nyasa is deliberated using a poverty degradation feed-back cycle.
malawicichlids.com /_popup_abs_ng01.htm   (221 words)

  
 NYASA Governance
NYASA shall hold an annual meeting and such other meetings as it or the President, with the approval of the Executive Committee, shall decide.
Meetings of the Executive Committee shall be called by the President or by any three members of that Committee.
A quorum for elections and transaction of business at any meeting of NYASA shall consist of ten percent of its members.
www.newpaltz.edu /nyasa/article6.html   (144 words)

  
 Nyasa Lovebird
The Nyasa lovebird is a rare, small, stocky parrot.
They are affectionate and intelligent, and have the ability to mimic.
The Nyasa belongs to the eye-ring species of lovebird, named for the featherless ring of white skin around their eyes.
www.switcheroozoo.com /profiles/nyasalovebird.htm   (94 words)

  
 LAKE NYASA (LAKE MALAWI)
From here the bottom rises gradually to north and south and, except for a ridge some 20 m high at 10:25S, there is no trace of separate basins as in Lake Tanganyika.
In further contrast to Lake Tanganyika, where a depth of 200 m is found within 20 km of the southern extremity of the lake, in Lake Nyasa such a depth is not encountered within 110 km of the southern end (8, 1).
Eccles, D. (1974) An outline of the physical limnology of Lake Malawi (Lake Nyasa), Limnol.
www.ilec.or.jp /database/afr/afr-13.html   (544 words)

  
 BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA / NYASALAND : Stamps
nyasaland nyassa nyassaland stamps postal history nyassa nyasa field force revenues revenue stamps booklets british central africa bca b.c.a.
nyasaland nyassa nyassaland nyassa land nyasa land stamps postage dues due stamps BCA overprints arms QE definitives british central africa bca b.c.a.
Nyasa Field Force / Revenues / Booklets / Malawi
www.rhodesia.co.za /nyasa_arms.html   (681 words)

  
 Malawi, republic in southeastern Africa
Malawi, republic in southeastern Africa, formerly the British protectorate of Nyasaland, bounded on the north by Tanzania, on the east by Lake Nyasa (Malawi), on the southeast and south by Mozambique, and on the west by Zambia.
Total road mileage in 1996 was 28,400 km (17,600 mi), of which only a small portion was paved or gravel surfaced.
In early 1995 Banda and a top deputy went on trial, charged with the 1983 killings of four government officials.
www.latifm.com /look/Regional_Malawi.htm   (1802 words)

  
 Nyasa, Lake definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
Nyasa, Lake definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
Search for "Nyasa, Lake" in all of MSN Encarta
Ny·a·sa, Lake lake in southeastern Africa, lying between Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.
encarta.msn.com /dictionary_561505869/Nyasa_Lake.html   (75 words)

  
 SriPedia nyasa dasakam
Sri NyAsa Dasakam is associated with the Prapatthi that Swami Sri Desikan performed at the sacred feet of Kanchi VaradarAjan.
The significance of nyAsa dasakam however is due to the clarity and brevity with which our AchAryan summarized in just ten slokAs, the essence of nyAsam or bhara samarpaNam.
This is the greatness of the second slOkam of NyAsa dasakam since it focuses on the five angAs and the two adhikArams of SaraNAgathi.
www.ibiblio.org /sripedia/ebooks/vdesikan/nyasa_dasakam   (3158 words)

  
 Ragopedia: Raga Chapter - Nyasa, Cadence Note   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The note on which a Raga melody ends or temporarily rests is called the Nyasa or cadence note of that Raga.
Also used for Nyasa are those notes which, while serving the purpose of identifying the melodic image of the Raga to be performed, also serve the purpose of enhancing the charm and beauty of the melodic expansion.
No part of the information here may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information and storage retrieval system, without specific written permission from the Batish family.
batish.com /archives/rago1/raga/nyasa.html   (220 words)

  
 NY SPORTS ON LINE - NY Amateur Sports Alliance
The active membership meets monthly at the New York Athletic Club to discuss issues of mutual interest and to audit a lecture by a guest speaker on a related topic.
Dues are $100 per annum - please make your checks payable to NYASA and mail to Pete Ticali, West End Graphics, Inc., 180 Varick Street, 5th fl, New York, NY 10014.
Be sure to note on the check that it is for NYASA 2001 dues.
www.nysol.com /nyasa.html   (447 words)

  
 Lake Nyasa — FactMonster.com
Ruvuma - Ruvuma, river, c.450 mi (724 km) long, rising in N Mozambique, near Lake Nyasa and flowing E to...
Shire - Shire or Shiré, river, c.250 mi (400 km) long, flowing from the southern end of Lake Nyasa,...
Malawi: Land, People, and Government - Land, People, and Government Malawi is long and narrow, and about 20% of its total area is made up...
www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0836226.html   (220 words)

  
 SriPedia Sandhyavandanam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Every hymn or mantra is preceded by a sloka giving the name of rishi, chandas (meter or rhythm) and the deity to whom it is addresses (or meditated upon) and the purpose or application.
This action is called Nyasa or more precisely Rishinyasa.
The name of the sage indicates the sage who has realized this mantra.
www.ibiblio.org /sripedia/ebooks/sandhya/yv/nyasa.html   (172 words)

  
 Nyasa Softtec Pvt. Ltd. - PHP Development India,Outsource to india, Website Design India, Web Design Mumbai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Our content management system allows you to professionally and easily update your site as often as you like without any technical expertise.
An exhaustive range of comprehensive web solutions are offered by Nyasa Softec to its clients and offshore partners.
We provide high quality, cost-effective complete web solutions including complex database including web sites, e-commerce portals, intranet development and maintenance.
www.nyasa.info   (329 words)

  
 It’s Lake Nyasa, not Lake Malawi, Lowassa clarifies
It’s Lake Nyasa, not Lake Malawi, Lowassa clarifies
Prime Minister Edward Lowassa made it clear yesterday in the House that the water body bordering Tanzania and Malawi is known as Lake Nyasa and not Lake Malawi.
Earlier, the deputy minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Dr. Cyril Chami told the House in the past (since 1970) there have been talks between the two countries on re-demarcating Tanzania/Malawi the borders.
www.ippmedia.com /ipp/guardian/2006/11/16/78467.html   (259 words)

  
 B.C.A. / NYASALAND : Postage Dues / Postal History / Nyasa Field Force / Revenues / Booklets / Malawi
Very fine, clean and attractive and a scarce issue on cover.
Complete set of five values, superb unmounted mint.
1964 5/- definitive (‘LAKE NYASA’), left marginal pair with shift of both yellow AND brown printing right and down, doubling ‘5/-‘.
www.rhodesia.co.za /nyasa_history.html   (2095 words)

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