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Sajal Ahmed
Sejal () is a name for girls in India meaning “pure”, “sacred water”. An allusion to the purifying nature of the Ganges and Yamuna river waters that are considered sacred in India and in the Indian religions. The word ‘jal’ on its own refers to holy water and is often added to Ganga (Ganges) in the noun Gangajal which specifically refers to the holy water from this river. The name is mainly used in the Indian state of Gujarat. Due to phonetic nature of the Indian languages, variations in spelling occur as follows: • Sejal • Sajel • Sajal Notable people: * Sajal Barui (born c. 1977), Indian criminal * Sajal K. Das, Indian-American scientist and engineer * Sajal Nag, Indian historian There are many examples of Pakistani people using Indian names with Sanskrit etymology and origin. Sajal Aly Sajal Aly (; born 17 January 1994) is a Pakistani actress noted for playing a variety of characters in a range of serials—from contemporary social to romantic dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ganges
The Ganges ( ) (in India: Ganga ( ); in Bangladesh: Padma ( )). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river to which India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China are the riparian states." is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It flows south and east through the Gangetic plain of North India, receiving the right-bank tributary, the Yamuna, which also rises in the western Indian Himalayas, and several left-bank tributaries from Nepal that account for the bulk of its flow. In West Bengal state, India, a feeder canal taking off from its right bank diverts 50% of its flow southwards, artificially connecting it to the Hooghly river. The Ganges continues into Bangladesh, its name changing to the Padma. It is then joined by the Jamuna, the lower stream of the Brahmaputra, and eventually the Meghna, forming the major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamuna
The Yamuna (Hindustani language, Hindustani: ), also spelt Jumna, is the second-largest tributary river of the Ganges by discharge and the longest tributary in List of major rivers of India, India. Originating from the Yamunotri Glacier at a height of about on the southwestern slopes of Bandarpunch peaks of the Lower Himalayan Range, Lower Himalaya in Uttarakhand, it travels a total length of and has a Drainage system (geomorphology), drainage system of , 40.2% of the entire Ganges Basin. It merges with the Ganges at Triveni Sangam, Allahabad, which is a site of the Kumbh Mela, a Hindu festival held every 12 years. Like the Ganges, the Yamuna is highly venerated in Hinduism and worshipped as the Yamuna in Hinduism, goddess Yamuna. In Hinduism she is the daughter of the sun god, Surya, and the sister of Yama, the god of death, and so is also known as Yami. According to popular legends, bathing in its sacred waters frees one from the torments of death. It crosses several s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gujarat
Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth-most populous state, with a population of 60.4 million. It is bordered by Rajasthan to the northeast, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu to the south, Maharashtra to the southeast, Madhya Pradesh to the east, and the Arabian Sea and the Pakistani province of Sindh to the west. Gujarat's capital city is Gandhinagar, while its largest city is Ahmedabad. The Gujaratis are indigenous to the state and their language, Gujarati, is the state's official language. The state encompasses 23 sites of the ancient Indus Valley civilisation (more than any other state). The most important sites are Lothal (the world's first dry dock), Dholavira (the fifth largest site), and Gola Dhoro (where 5 uncommon seals were found). Lothal i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sajal Barui
Sajal Barui ( bn, সজল বারুই) is a convicted criminal who is serving a life sentence in prison for the murder of his father, stepmother, and stepbrother. He committed the murders at the age of sixteen, on 22 November 1993 in Kolkata, India. The murders made headlines in the Kolkata press due to the gruesome nature of the crimes and because Barui and his accomplices were minors at the time. Early childhood Sajal Barui's father, Subal Barui, abandoned his first wife, Neoti Barui, by whom he bore a son, and had a relationship with another woman, Minati. Sajal was conceived out of this affair. After a few years, his father returned to his first wife and took Sajal along with him. Sajal did not see his natural mother after the age of eight. After his arrest, he recounted how he had often been burned with burning cigarettes and hot irons in his childhood by his step-mother and elder step-brother The murders On the night of 22 November 1993, Sajal and five of his friend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sajal K
Sejal () is a name for girls in India meaning “pure”, “sacred water”. An allusion to the purifying nature of the Ganges and Yamuna river waters that are considered sacred in India and in the Indian religions. The word ‘jal’ on its own refers to holy water and is often added to Ganga (Ganges) in the noun Gangajal which specifically refers to the holy water from this river. The name is mainly used in the Indian state of Gujarat. Due to phonetic nature of the Indian languages, variations in spelling occur as follows: • Sejal • Sajel • Sajal Notable people: * Sajal Barui (born c. 1977), Indian criminal * Sajal K. Das, Indian-American scientist and engineer * Sajal Nag, Indian historian There are many examples of Pakistani people using Indian names with Sanskrit etymology and origin. Sajal Aly Sajal Aly (; born 17 January 1994) is a Pakistani actress noted for playing a variety of characters in a range of serials—from contemporary social to romantic dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sajal Nag
Sajal Nag is Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Distinguished Chair Professor in Social Sciences at Presidency University, Kolkata. He specialises in the history of modern North-East India. He has published extensively on different aspects of India's North-East He was a professor of history at Assam University, Silchar. Earlier, and was associated with the North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, and the Centre for Social Studies, Surat. In 2008 Prof. Sajal Nag was Charles Wallace Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge (UK). He was a Commonwealth Fellow to United Kingdom during 2004–2005 and a visiting senior research fellow at Queen's University, Belfast. He was senior fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi for two years 2013–2014. With several published books and research articles, his book ''India and North East India: Mind, Politics and the Process of Integration 1946-1950'' (Regency, Delhi, 1998) was nominated for Srikant Dutt ... [...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] |
