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Pathani Samanta

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Mahamahopadhyaya Chandrasekhar Singh Harichandan Mohapatra Samanta (Odia: ମହାମହୋପାଧ୍ୟାୟ ଚନ୍ଦ୍ରଶେଖର ସିଂହ ହରିଚନ୍ଦନ ମହାପାତ୍ର ସାମନ୍ତ), popularly known as Pathani Samanta (Odia: ପଠାଣି ସାମନ୍ତ) (13 December 1835 - 11 June 1904) was an Indian astronomer and scholar who measured the distance from earth with a bamboo pipe and many other traditional instruments that he built. [1]

11 relations: Almanac, Astronomer, Hinduism, Khandapada, Nayagarh district, Odia alphabet, Odia language, Odia people, Odisha, Princely state, Sanskrit.

Almanac

An almanac (also spelled almanack and almanach) is an annual publication listing a set of events forthcoming in the next year.

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Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who concentrates their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or a way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent.

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Khandapada

Khandapada (also spelt as Khandapara) is a town and a notified area committee in Nayagarh district in the Indian state of Odisha.

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Nayagarh district

Nayagarh district(ନୟାଗଡ଼ ଜିଲ୍ଲା)is one of the 30 districts of Odisha State in eastern India.

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Odia alphabet

The Odia script (ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଲେଖନୀ ଶୈଳୀ), also known as the Odia script, is a Brahmic script used to write the Odia language.

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Odia language

Odia (ଓଡ଼ିଆ) (formerly romanized as Oriya) is a language spoken by 4.2% of India's population.

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Odia people

The Odia (ଓଡ଼ିଆ), formerly known as Oriya, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group native to the East Indian state of Odisha and have the Odia language as their mother tongue.

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Odisha

Odisha (formerly Orissa) is one of the 29 states of India, located in eastern India.

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Princely state

A princely state, also called native state (legally, under the British) or Indian state (for those states on the subcontinent), was a vassal state under a local or regional ruler in a subsidiary alliance with the British Raj.

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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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Pathani Samant, Samanta Chandra Sekhar.

References

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

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