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Bappa Rawal

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Bappa Rawal, also spelled as "Bappa Raval", (c. 8th century) was a legendary ruler of the Mewar region in Rajasthan, India. [1]

47 relations: Al-Biruni, Bayana, Bhil people, Body piercing, Bow and arrow, Brahmin, Breastfeeding, Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya, Chittor Fort, D. R. Bhandarkar, Dasharatha Sharma, David Gordon White, Dineshchandra Sircar, Eklingji, Gahlot, Gaurishankar Hirachand Ojha, Gorakhnath, Gorkha Kingdom, Guhila dynasty, Gurjara-Pratihara, Halo (religious iconography), Idar, International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, Kaviraj Shyamaldas, Lingam, Mewar, Mleccha, Mori Rajputs, Nagabhata I, Nagda, Nandi (bull), Nath, Nāgarī script, Pashupata Shaivism, Prithvi Narayan Shah, R. C. Majumdar, Rajasthan, Rajput, Rama, Rashtrakuta dynasty, Sanskrit, Shaivism, Trishula, Udaipur State, Umayyad campaigns in India, University of Lucknow, Vikramaditya.

Al-Biruni

Abū Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Al-Bīrūnī (Chorasmian/ابوریحان بیرونی Abū Rayḥān Bērōnī; New Persian: Abū Rayḥān Bīrūnī) (973–1050), known as Al-Biruni (البيروني) in English, was an IranianD.J. Boilot, "Al-Biruni (Beruni), Abu'l Rayhan Muhammad b. Ahmad", in Encyclopaedia of Islam (Leiden), New Ed., vol.1:1236–1238.

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Bayana

Bayana is a historical town in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan in India.

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Bhil people

Bhils or Bhidis are primarily an ethnic group of people in West India.

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Body piercing

Body piercing, a form of body modification, is the practice of puncturing or cutting a part of the human body, creating an opening in which jewelry may be worn.

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Bow and arrow

The bow and arrow is a ranged weapon system consisting of an elastic launching device (bow) and long-shafted projectiles (arrows).

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Brahmin

Brahmin (Sanskrit: ब्राह्मण) is a varna (class) in Hinduism specialising as priests, teachers (acharya) and protectors of sacred learning across generations.

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Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding, also known as nursing, is the feeding of babies and young children with milk from a woman's breast.

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Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya

Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya (1861–1938) was a Marathi-language historian and writer from Maharashtra, India.

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Chittor Fort

The Chittor Fort or Chittorgarh is one of the largest forts in India.

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D. R. Bhandarkar

Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar (1875–1950) (देवदत्त रामकृष्ण भांडारकर) was an Indian archaeologist and epigraphist who worked with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).

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Dasharatha Sharma

Dasharatha Sharma (1903–1976) was an Indologist with particular interest in the history of the Rajasthan region of India.

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David Gordon White

David Gordon White (born September 3, 1953) is an American Indologist.

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Dineshchandra Sircar

Dineshchandra Sircar (1907–1985; also known as D. C. Sircar or D.C. Sarkar) was an epigraphist, historian, numismatist and folklorist, known particularly for his work deciphering inscriptions in India and Bangladesh.

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Eklingji

Eklingji is a Hindu temple complex in Udaipur District of Rajasthan in western India.

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Gahlot

Gahlot is a gotra (clan) of India.

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Gaurishankar Hirachand Ojha

Rai Bahadur Pandit Gaurishankar Hirachand Ojha (1863–1947), born in Rohida village of Sirohi District, was a historian from the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Gorakhnath

Gorakhnath (also known as Goraksanath, estimated c. early 11th century) was an influential founder of the Nath Hindu monastic movement in India.

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Gorkha Kingdom

Gorkha Kingdom (गोरखा राज्य) was a former kingdom in the confederation of 24 states known as Chaubisi rajya located in present-day western Nepal.

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Guhila dynasty

The Guhila dynasty ruled the Medapata (modern Mewar) region in present-day Rajasthan state of India.

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Gurjara-Pratihara

The Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty, also known as the Pratihara Empire, was an imperial power during the Late Classical period on the Indian subcontinent, that ruled much of Northern India from the mid-7th to the 11th century.

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Halo (religious iconography)

A halo (from Greek ἅλως, halōs; also known as a nimbus, aureole, glory, or gloriole) is a crown of light rays, circle or disk of light that surrounds a person in art.

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Idar

Idar is a town in Sabarkantha district, Gujarat, India.

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International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration

The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (I.A.S.T.) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanization of Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages.

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Kaviraj Shyamaldas

Shyamaldas Dadhavadhia (19th century), a charan, popularly referred to as Kaviraj (Hindi:king of poets) Shyamaldas was one of the early writers involved in documenting the history and culture of the Rajasthan region of India.

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Lingam

Lingam (Sanskrit: लिंगम्,, lit. "sign, symbol or mark"; also linga, Shiva linga), is an abstract or aniconic representation of the Hindu deity Shiva, used for worship in temples, smaller shrines, or as self-manifested natural objects.

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Mewar

Mewar or Mewāḍ is a region of south-central Rajasthan state in western India.

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Mleccha

Mleccha (from Vedic Sanskrit, meaning "non-Vedic", "barbarian"), also spelled Mlechchha or Maleccha, is a name, which referred to people of foreign extraction in ancient India.

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Mori Rajputs

The Mori clan is a Rajput clan of India.

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Nagabhata I

Nagabhata I (r. c. 730-760 CE) was an Indian king who founded the imperial Gurjara Pratihara dynasty.

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Nagda

in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

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Nandi (bull)

Nandi (नन्दि, நந்தி, ನಂದಿ, న౦ది, ନନ୍ଦି) is the name of the gate- guardian deity of Kailasa, the abode of Lord Shiva.

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Nath

Nath, also called as Natha, are a Shaivism sub-tradition within Hinduism.

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Nāgarī script

The Nāgarī script is the ancestor of Devanagari, Nandinagari and other variants, and was first used to write Prakrit and Sanskrit.

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Pashupata Shaivism

Pashupata Shaivism (पाशुपत) is the oldest of the major Shaivite Hindu schools.

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Prithvi Narayan Shah

Prithivi Narayan Shah (1723–1775; पृथ्वीनारायण शाह) was the last King of Gorkha Kingdom and first one of Kingdom of Nepal (also called Kingdom of Gorkha).

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R. C. Majumdar

Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (known as R. C. Majumdar; 4 December 1884 – 11 February 1980) was a historian and professor of Indian history.

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Rajasthan

Rajasthan (literally, "Land of Kings") is India's largest state by area (or 10.4% of India's total area).

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Rajput

Rajput (from Sanskrit raja-putra, "son of a king") is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the Indian subcontinent.

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Rama

Rama or Ram (Sanskrit: राम, IAST: Rāma), also known as Ramachandra, is a major deity of Hinduism.

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Rashtrakuta dynasty

Rashtrakuta (IAST) was a royal dynasty ruling large parts of the Indian subcontinent between the sixth and 10th centuries.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

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Shaivism

Shaivism (Śaivam) (Devanagari: शैव संप्रदाय) (Bengali: শৈব) (Tamil: சைவம்) (Telugu: శైవ సాంప్రదాయం) (Kannada:ಶೈವ ಸಂಪ್ರದಾಯ) is one of the major traditions within Hinduism that reveres Shiva as the Supreme Being.

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Trishula

Trishula (Sanskrit: त्रिशूल, IAST: triśūla) is a trident, commonly used as the principal symbols in Hinduism and Buddhism.

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Udaipur State

The Udaipur State, also known as Mewar State, was a princely state in northwestern India prior to the formation of the Indian Republic.

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Umayyad campaigns in India

In the first half of the 8th century CE, a series of battles took place between the Umayyad Caliphate and the Indian kingdoms to the east of the Indus river.

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University of Lucknow

University Of Lucknow or Lucknow University (LU) is a government owned Indian research university based in Lucknow.

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Vikramaditya

Vikramaditya (IAST) was a legendary emperor of ancient India.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bappa_Rawal

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