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Prathama Bank
Prathama means "first" in Sanskrit. It can refer to: * Prathama (day), the first day in the lunar fortnight (''Paksha'') of the Hindu calendar. * Prathama Blood Centre, in Ahmedabad See also * Pratham (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late Bronze Age. Sanskrit is the sacred language of Hinduism, the language of classical Hindu philosophy, and of historical texts of Buddhism and Jainism. It was a link language in ancient and medieval South Asia, and upon transmission of Hindu and Buddhist culture to Southeast Asia, East Asia and Central Asia in the early medieval era, it became a language of religion and high culture, and of the political elites in some of these regions. As a result, Sanskrit had a lasting impact on the languages of South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia, especially in their formal and learned vocabularies. Sanskrit generally connotes several Old Indo-Aryan language varieties. The most archaic of these is the Vedic Sanskrit found in the Rig Veda, a colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prathama (day)
Prathama is the Sanskrit word for "first", and is the first day in the lunar fortnight (''Paksha'') of the Hindu calendar. Prathama is also known as ''Pratipada'' in West Bengal, Odisha and western India (Maharashtra, Konkan, and Goa). Each month has two Prathama days, being the first day of the "bright" (''Shukla'') and of the "dark" (''Krishna'') fortnights respectively. Thus Prathama occurs on the first and the sixteenth day of each month. It is also known as Pratipad or Pratipada. Festivals * Gudhi Padva, the Marathi name for Chaitra Shukla Pratipada. It is celebrated on the first day of the Chaitra month to mark the beginning of the New year according to the lunisolar Hindu calendar. This day is also the first day oChaitra Navratriand Ghatasthapana also known as Kalash Sthapana is done on this day. * Govardhan Puja, a North Indian festival, occurs on Prathama in the month of Kartik. * Bali Pratipada, a South Indian and Maharashtrian festival, also occurs on Prathama in the mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prathama Blood Centre
Prathama Blood Centre (''Prathama'' means ''first'' in Sanskrit) is a blood bank situated at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India jointly established in 2000 by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation and the Advanced Transfusion Medicine Research Foundation as a non-profit organisation. About 50,000 blood donors donate blood annually at Prathama which is India's first fully automated blood centre. On World Thalassemia Day 2016, Prathama introduced Nucleic acid testing A nucleic acid test (NAT) is a technique used to detect a particular nucleic acid sequence and thus usually to detect and identify a particular species or subspecies of organism, often a virus or bacterium that acts as a pathogen in blood, tissu ... (NAT) of donated blood to reduce the risk of transfusion transmitted infections (TTIs) in people receiving blood. Transfusion of unsafe blood that has not been screened increases the risk of Transfusion Transmitted Infections (TTIs) and can at times be life-threatening. NAT h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
