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Bathroom Decor Fit for Royalty

December 16, 2007 – 01:56

Transform your bathroom into an elegant spa-like haven with beautifully crafted vanities, wall decor, and accessories. Choose your bathroom decor in a theme that exudes tranquility and peacefulness. Illuminate the room and its features with carefully selected light fixtures. Rise above bland and simple decor items and incorporate charming towels, bath rugs, toothbrush holders, tissue boxes, and lotion dispensers to create a bathroom fit for a king or queen.

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Beach Resorts - Goa

September 22, 2007 – 00:47

Aguada Heritage Beach Resort

Facilities: Spa Aguada, nine restaurants, health club, 24-hour coffee shop, water sports, conference rooms, and beach and barbeque parties
Address: Sinquerim, Bardez, North Goa, Goa - 403519
Location: 45 km from Nearest Airport; 55 km from Margao Railway Station; 24 km from Panjim Read More »

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India

July 17, 2007 – 02:03

Climate in India varies greatly, from the arid deserts of Rajasthan to the cool highlands of Assam, allegedly the wettest place on earth. But basically India has a three-season year - the hot, the wet and the cool. The heat starts to build up on the northern plains around February and by April it becomes unbearable - expect 35-45°C (95-113°F) days in most places. The first signs of the monsoon appear in May, with high humidity, short rainstorms and violent electrical storms. Read More »

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Hymn of Creation

May 23, 2007 – 14:09

In the following cosmogonic poem [x. 129] the origin of the world is explained as the evolution of the existent (sát) from the non-existent (ásat). Water thus came into being first; from it was evolved intelligence by heat. It is the starting-point of the natural philosophy which developed into the Sāṅkhya system. Read More »

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Historical note on devanāgarī type

January 3, 2007 – 03:40

In 1786 Dr. Charles Wilkins was obliged by ill-health to return to England. He made the first direct rendering into English of a Sanskrit text: this was the 3rd century ad Vaishnava creed, the “Bhagavad-Gita”, London, 1785, and the Company paid for publication. He followed it with a translation of the “Hitopadesa”, Bath, 1787. At his house in Bath he worked on a fount of devanagari type. In the preface to his Sanskrit grammar, which he began printing in 1795, Wilkins writes that he “cut letters in steel, made matrices and moulds and cast from them a fount of type of the devanagari character all with my own hands”. Before the book was finished fire destroyed his workshop, though the punches were saved. Ten years later the Company persuaded him to resume work. His was the first fount of nagari type in Europe of which systematic use could be made. Read More »

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Chief Peculiarities of Vedic Grammar

March 11, 2005 – 14:28

1. As several stages can be distinguished in the development of the Vedic language, some of the following statements are strictly applicable only to the Rig-veda, the oldest and most important monument of Vedic literature.

The Alphabet.

2. The sounds are the same as in Sanskrit, with the exception of two additional letters. Cerebral ḍ and ḍh between vowels regularly become cerebral  and h; — e.g. īé = īḍé, ‘I praise’; mīhúṣe = mīḍhúṣe, ‘to the bountiful.’