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Lanka

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Lanka is the name given in Hindu epics to the island fortress capital of the legendary asura king Ravana in the epics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. [1]

63 relations: Ancient clans of Lanka, Andhra in Indian epic literature, Anga Kingdom, Angkor Wat, Asura, Avanti (India), Chera dynasty, Chinas, Chola dynasty, Darada Kingdom, Dravida Kingdom, Equator, Hanuman, Hara Huna Kingdom, Hindu, Indian Ocean, Kalinga (Mahabharata), Karnata Kingdom, Kasmira Kingdom, Kekeya Kingdom, Kerala Kingdom, Khmer people, Kirata Kingdom, Lanka, Mahabharata, Mahajanapada, Mahavamsa, Maldives, Markandeya, Mushika Kingdom, Naga people (Lanka), Odra Kingdom, Pahlava Kingdom, Pandava, Pandu, Pandya Kingdom, Pundra Kingdom, Rajasuya, Rakshasa, Rakshasa Kingdom, Rama, Ramayana, Ravana, Relief, Sahadeva, Sakas in the Mahabharata, Sindhu Kingdom, Sinhala Kingdom, Sita, Sri Lanka, ..., Sumatra, TamilNet, Trikuta, Tushara Kingdom, Valmiki, Vanga Kingdom, Vibhishana, Vishvakarman, Yaksha Kingdom, Yavana Kingdom, Yojana, Yona, Yudhishthira. Expand index (13 more) »

Ancient clans of Lanka

The indigenous people of Sri Lanka were known as Nagas and Yakkas.They ruled over the island of Sri Lanka during the pre-Vijaya era.

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Andhra in Indian epic literature

Andhra (ఆంధ్ర) was a kingdom mentioned in the epic Mahabharata.

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Anga Kingdom

Anga is described in the Mahabharata as a kingdom in the eastern parts of India.

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Angkor Wat

Angkor Wat (អង្គរវត្ត, "Capital Temple") is a temple complex in Cambodia and the largest religious monument in the world, on a site measuring.

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Asura

Asuras (असुर) are a class of divine beings or power-seeking deities related to the more benevolent Devas (also known as Suras) in Hindu mythology.

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Avanti (India)

Avanti (अवन्ति) was an ancient Indian Mahajanapada (Great Realm), roughly corresponded to the present day Malwa region.

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Chera dynasty

The Cheras were the ruling dynasty of the present-day state of Kerala and to a lesser extent, parts of Tamil Nadu in South India.

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Chinas

The Chinas or Chīnaḥ (Sanskrit चीन(cīna)) are a people mentioned in ancient Indian literature from the first millennium BC, such as the Mahabharata, Laws of Manu, as well the Puranic literature.

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Chola dynasty

The Chola dynasty was one of the longest-ruling dynasties in the history of southern India.

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Darada Kingdom

Daradas were a people who lived north to the Kashmir valley.

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Dravida Kingdom

Dravida is mentioned as one of the kingdoms in the southern part of present-day mainland India during the time of the Mahabharata.

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Equator

An equator of a rotating spheroid (such as a planet) is its zeroth circle of latitude (parallel).

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Hanuman

Hanuman (IAST: Hanumān, Sanskrit: हनुमान्) is an ardent devotee of Lord Rama and one of the central characters in the various versions of the epic Ramayana found in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

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Hara Huna Kingdom

Hara-Huna was an ancient Chinese kingdom and inhabited by the Hara Hunas tribe close to the Himalayas who had limited interaction with the Indian kingdoms, thus they were identified in the epic Mahabharata.

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Hindu

Hindu refers to any person who regards themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of Hinduism.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).

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Kalinga (Mahabharata)

Kalinga is a kingdom described in the legendary Indian text Mahabharata.

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Karnata Kingdom

Karnata was a southern kingdom ruled by -rulers during the period of the epic Mahabharata.

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Kasmira Kingdom

Kasmira was a kingdom identified as the Kashmir Valley along the Jhelum River of the modern Jammu and Kashmir state.

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Kekeya Kingdom

Kekeya (also known as Kekaya, Kaikaya, Kaikeya etc.) is a kingdom grouped among the western kingdoms in the epic Mahabharata.

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Kerala Kingdom

Keralas or Udra Keralas are a dynasty mentioned in Sanskrit epics of ancient India.

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Khmer people

Khmer people (ខ្មែរ,, Northern Khmer pronunciation) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Cambodia, accounting for 97.6% of the country's 15.9 million people.

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Kirata Kingdom

Kirata Kingdom (Kirat) in Sanskrit literature and Hindu mythology refers to any kingdom of the Kirata people, who were dwellers mostly in the Himalayas (mostly eastern Himalaya).

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Lanka

Lanka is the name given in Hindu epics to the island fortress capital of the legendary asura king Ravana in the epics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.

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Mahabharata

The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.

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Mahajanapada

Mahājanapada (lit, from maha, "great", and janapada "foothold of a tribe, country") was one of the sixteen kingdoms or oligarchic republics that existed in ancient India from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE.

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Mahavamsa

The Mahavamsa ("Great Chronicle", Pali Mahāvaṃsa) (5th century CE) is an epic poem written in the Pali language.

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Maldives

The Maldives (or; ދިވެހިރާއްޖެ Dhivehi Raa'jey), officially the Republic of Maldives, is a South Asian sovereign state, located in the Indian Ocean, situated in the Arabian Sea.

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Markandeya

Markandeya (मार्कण्‍डेय) is an ancient rishi (sage) from the Hindu tradition, born in the clan of Bhrigu Rishi.

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Mushika Kingdom

The Mushika Kingdom (Mushaka Rajya, also called Ezhimalai Rajya, Puzhinadu, Kolathunadu, Chirakkal Rajya among the more common names) was an ancient kingdom of the Tamil Sangam period in present-day Kerala, India, ruled by a royal dynasty of the same name.

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Naga people (Lanka)

The Naga people were believed to be an ancient tribe who once inhabited Sri Lanka.

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Odra Kingdom

Odra was a kingdom located in the northern Odisha.

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Pahlava Kingdom

Kingdom is identified to be a kingdom of an Iranian tribe.

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Pandava

In the Mahabharata, a Hindu epic text, the Pandavas are the five acknowledged sons of Pandu, by his two wives Kunti and Madri, who was the princess of Madra.

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Pandu

In the Mahabharata epic, Pandu (पाण्डु Pāṇḍu, lit. yellowish, whitish, pale), was the king of Hastinapur, the son of Ambalika and Vichitravirya.

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Pandya Kingdom

The Pandyas were fierce warriors who took part in the Kurukshetra War as per the epic Mahabharata.

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Pundra Kingdom

Pundra (also known as Paundraka, Paundraya) was an ancient kingdom during the Late Vedic period on the Indian Subcontinent, based in modern-day West Bengal and Bangladesh.

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Rajasuya

Rajasuya (Imperial Sacrifice or the king's inauguration sacrifice) is a Śrauta ritual of Sanatan Hindu Dharma.

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Rakshasa

A Rakshasa (राक्षस) is a mythological being in Hindu mythology.

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Rakshasa Kingdom

Rakshasa Kingdom refers to the territory of Rakshasas who were a tribe, mentioned along with others like Devas (including Rudras, Maruts, Vasus and Adityas), Asuras (including Daityas, Danavas and Kalakeyas), Pisachas, Gandharvas, Kimpurushas, Vanaras, Suparnas, Kinnaras, Bhutas and Yakshas.

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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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Ramayana

Ramayana (रामायणम्) is an ancient Indian epic poem which narrates the struggle of the divine prince Rama to rescue his wife Sita from the demon king Ravana.

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Ravana

Ravana (IAST: Rāvaṇa;; Sanskrit: रावण) is a character in the Hindu epic Ramayana where he is depicted as the Rakshasa king of Lanka.

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Relief

Relief is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material.

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Sahadeva

In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Sahadeva (Sanskrit: सहदेव) was the youngest of the five Pandava brothers.

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Sakas in the Mahabharata

Sakas are described in Sanskrit sources as a Mleccha tribe grouped along with the Yavanas, Tusharas and Barbaras.

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Sindhu Kingdom

Sindhu was a kingdom of India mentioned in the epic Mahabharata and in the Harivamsa Purana.

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Sinhala Kingdom

The Sinhala Kingdom or Sinhalese Kingdom refers to the successive Sinhalese kingdoms that existed in what is today Sri Lanka.

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Sita

Sita (pronounced, Sanskrit: सीता, IAST: Sītā) or Seeta, is the consort of Lord Rama (incarnation of Vishnu) and an avatar of Sri Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess that denotes good sign, good fortune, prosperity, success, and happiness.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Sumatra

Sumatra is an Indonesian island in Southeast Asia that is part of the Sunda Islands.

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TamilNet

TamilNet is a news website that provides news and feature articles on current affairs in Sri Lanka, specifically related to the erstwhile Sri Lankan Civil War.

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Trikuta

Trikuta is a three peaked mountain.

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Tushara Kingdom

The Tushara Kingdom according to Ancient Indian literature, such as the epic Mahabharata was a land located beyond north-west India.

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Valmiki

Valmiki (Sanskrit: वाल्मीकि, Vālmīki) is celebrated as the harbinger-poet in Sanskrit literature.

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Vanga Kingdom

The Vanga Kingdom was an ancient seafaring thalassocracy during the Late Vedic period on the Indian Subcontinent, which originated in the region of Bengal.

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Vibhishana

Vibhishana (IAST: or Bibhishan) was a king of Lanka in the legendary epic Ramayana.

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Vishvakarman

Viśhwákarma (meaning "all creating" in Sanskrit) is the deity of the creative power that holds the universe together according to the Rigveda and is considered to be the original creator, architect,divine engineer of the universe from before the advent of time, also the root concept of the later Upanishadic figures of Brahman and Purusha in the historical Vedic religion.

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Yaksha Kingdom

Yaksha Kingdom refers to the territory of a tribe of mythical creatures called Yakshas who were one of the Exotic Tribes of Ancient India and ancient Sri Lanka.

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Yavana Kingdom

Yavana or Yona refers to a community in Indian texts and history.

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Yojana

A Yojana (Sanskrit: योजन) is a Vedic measure of distance that was used in ancient India.

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Yona

The word Yona in Pali and the Prakrits, and the analogue "Yavana" in Sanskrit, are words used in Ancient India to designate Greek speakers.

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Yudhishthira

In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Yudhishthira (Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर, IAST: Yudhiṣṭhira) was the eldest son of King Pandu and Queen Kunti and the king of Indraprastha and later of Hastinapura (Kuru).

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References

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

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