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Variar
Variyar (also written as Variar, Varyar, Warriar or Warrier) is a Hindu Ambalavasi caste in Kerala, India. Etymology The term Variyar has its origin in the Malayalam word 'Variyam' ( ml, വാരിയം /വാര്യം), which refers to a committee or a board. Variyam refers to an office of supervision. Thus variyar is a supervising officer or a member of a supervisory board or committee. The word is commonly used in the plural form as Variar (Varian + -ar) to denote respect. The feminine equivalent of Variar is ''Varassyar''. It is a combination of Variyassi/Variaththi and the plural suffix ''-ar''. People Notable people called Variar, Variyar, or Warrier include * CBC Warrier – Ex-Member of Legislative Assembly (Kerala) * Ikkanda Warrier (1890–1977) – the first and the last Prime Minister of the state of Cochin, India, beginning in 1948. * Gopi Warrier – pseudoscientist specialising in Ayurvedic medicine, playwright and poet. * Jayaraj Warrier – Actor * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambalavasi
Ambalavasi, more properly Ampalavasi, ( ml, അമ്പലവാസി; IAST: Ampalavāsi; ) is the generic name for a group of castes among Hindus in Kerala, India, who have traditionally rendered temple services. Castes The Ambalavasis are broadly divided into two groups, being those who wear the sacred thread and those who do not. Sacred thread wearers Pushpaka Brahmins * Pushpaka (Pushpakan Unni) * Nambeesan * Theeyatt Unni * Kurukkal * Puppalli * Plappalli (Pilappalli) * Nambidi * Daivampadi or Brahmani Others * Chakyar, * Nambiar * Atikal (also written as Adikal) Threadless Ambalavasis *Pisharody * Marar * Varyar *Pothuval, The feminine names of threadless ''ambalavasi'' castes are formed by adding the suffix ''-syar'' to the masculine names as Pisharadi-Pisharasyar, Marar-Marasyar, Variar-Varasyar, Poduval-Poduvalsyar. Temple services Though all Ampalavāsis have to do service in temples, they have sufficiently distinct functions to perform. Pushpakans and Namb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unnayi Variyar
Unnayi Warrier was a poet, writer, scholar, and dramatist who lived in Kerala, India during the 17th/18th century. He is best known for his chef-d'oeuvre ''Nalacharitham'' aattakatha and is known to have made significant contributions to the art of Kathakali, the classical dance-drama form of Kerala. Biography There are only sketchy details available regarding Unnayi Warrier's real name, exact date and place of birth, his family background and literary achievements. There is consensus among scholars that his family name was 'Akathoottu Warriam' and that he was a garland maker (traditional vocation of Warriers (Variar)) by profession at Irinjalakkuda Koodalmanikyam Temple. One tangible record available that throws light on his life and times is that his work ''Nalacharitham aattakatha - 2nd day'' was enacted during the festival season of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple at Thiruvananthapuram(Trivandrum) in 1749 AD. This indicates that ''Nalacharitham'' was authored by Warrier during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sankara Variyar
Shankara Variyar (; .) was an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. His family were employed as temple-assistants in the temple at near modern Ottapalam. Mathematical lineage He was taught mainly by Nilakantha Somayaji (1444–1544), the author of the Tantrasamgraha and Jyesthadeva (1500–1575), the author of Yuktibhāṣā. Other teachers of Shankara include Netranarayana, the patron of Nilakantha Somayaji and Chitrabhanu, the author of an astronomical treaties dated to 1530 and a small work with solutions and proofs for algebraic equations. Works The known works of Shankara Variyar are the following: * ''Yukti-dipika'' - an extensive commentary in verse on ''Tantrasamgraha'' based on ''Yuktibhāṣā''. * ''Laghu-vivrti'' - a short commentary in prose on ''Tantrasamgraha''. * '' Kriya-kramakari'' - a lengthy prose commentary on Lilavati of Bhaskara II. * An astronomical commentary dated 1529 CE. * An astronomical handbook completed ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindu
Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent. The term ''"Hindu"'' traces back to Old Persian which derived these names from the Sanskrit name ''Sindhu'' (सिन्धु ), referring to the river Indus. The Greek cognates of the same terms are "''Indus''" (for the river) and "''India''" (for the land of the river). The term "''Hindu''" also implied a geographic, ethnic or cultural identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent around or beyond the Sindhu (Indus) River. By the 16th century CE, the term began to refer to residents of the subcontinent who were not Turkic or Muslims. Hindoo is an archaic spelling variant, whose use today is considered derogatory. The historical development of Hindu self-identity within the local In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerala Society
Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South Canara, and Thiruvithamkoor. Spread over , Kerala is the 21st largest Indian state by area. It is bordered by Karnataka to the north and northeast, Tamil Nadu to the east and south, and the Lakshadweep Sea to the west. With 33 million inhabitants as per the 2011 census, Kerala is the 13th-largest Indian state by population. It is divided into 14 districts with the capital being Thiruvananthapuram. Malayalam is the most widely spoken language and is also the official language of the state. The Chera dynasty was the first prominent kingdom based in Kerala. The Ay kingdom in the deep south and the Ezhimala kingdom in the north formed the other kingdoms in the early years of the Common Era (CE). The region had been a prominent spice exporter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shobha Warrier
Shobha Warrier is an Indian journalist and author based in Chennai. She began her career as a creative writer, with publishing a number of short stories in Malayalam: "Ramakundam", "Meghana", and "Jalavidya". In 1996, she was awarded with the Lalithambika Sahitya Awards (named after the author and social reformer Lalithambika Antharjanam) for the lattermost, which was later translated to Kannada and Telugu. Warrier, however, felt that she did not receive any recognition with the work and subsequently became a journalist after getting persuasion from her friends. She is serving as the associate editorial director of the entertainment website Rediff.com. Writing career Warrier has authored four books, all of which were published by Vitasta Publishing. The first is ''The Diary of A Journalist: The Little Flower Girl and Others'' (2013), an anthological book containing 36 stories about her meeting with several people during her journalistic career. The idea of the book first came up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shashi Warrier
Shashi Warrier is an Indian author who wrote ''Hangman's Journal''. He was born in Kerala and has an MSc(Hons.) in Economics from BITS Pilani. His father was in the Indian armed forces and Warrier spent his childhood in different parts of the country. He is also an avid biker and has travelled around India on his Royal Enfield Thunderbird. Shashi is married to writer (Circle of Fate) Prita Warrier. They live in Mangalore. Filmography He was the co-writer of the 2002 Indian English film '' Bokshu, the Myth'' directed by Shyamaprasad Shyamaprasad (born 7 November 1960) is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor from Kerala. Career Shyamaprasad was born on 7 November 1960 at Palakkad, as the younger son of O. Rajagopal and Santhakumari. He was named after Shyama Prasad .... Bibliography * * * * * * * * * * * References Indian male novelists Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani alumni Living people Malayali people International Writing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerala School Of Astronomy And Mathematics
The Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics or the Kerala school was a school of Indian mathematics, mathematics and Indian astronomy, astronomy founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama in Kingdom of Tanur, Tirur, Malappuram district, Malappuram, Kerala, India, which included among its members: Parameshvara, Neelakanta Somayaji, Jyeshtadeva, Achyuta Pisharati, Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri and Achyuta Panikkar. The school flourished between the 14th and 16th centuries and the original discoveries of the school seems to have ended with Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri, Narayana Bhattathiri (1559–1632). In attempting to solve astronomical problems, the Kerala school independently discovered a number of important mathematical concepts. Their most important results—series expansion for trigonometric functions—were described in Sanskrit verse in a book by Neelakanta called ''Tantrasangraha'', and again in a commentary on this work, called ''Tantrasangraha-vakhya'', of unknown author ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History One of the earliest known mathematicians were Thales of Miletus (c. 624–c.546 BC); he has been hailed as the first true mathematician and the first known individual to whom a mathematical discovery has been attributed. He is credited with the first use of deductive reasoning applied to geometry, by deriving four corollaries to Thales' Theorem. The number of known mathematicians grew when Pythagoras of Samos (c. 582–c. 507 BC) established the Pythagorean School, whose doctrine it was that mathematics ruled the universe and whose motto was "All is number". It was the Pythagoreans who coined the term "mathematics", and with whom the study of mathematics for its own sake begins. The first woman mathematician recorded by history was Hypati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, galaxies – in either observational astronomy, observational (by analyzing the data) or theoretical astronomy. Examples of topics or fields astronomers study include planetary science, Sun, solar astronomy, the Star formation, origin or stellar evolution, evolution of stars, or the galaxy formation and evolution, formation of galaxies. A related but distinct subject is physical cosmology, which studies the Universe as a whole. Types Astronomers usually fall under either of two main types: observational astronomy, observational and theoretical astronomy, theoretical. Observational astronomers make direct observations of Astronomical object, celestial objects and analyze the data. In contrast, theoretical astronomers create and investigate C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandeep Warrier
Sandeep Warrier (born 4 April 1991) is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international debut for the Indian cricket team in July 2021 against Sri Lanka. He is a right-arm medium-fast bowler who has played for Kerala and currently plays for Tamil Nadu in domestic cricket and Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League. Domestic career Sandeep Warrier made his first-class debut for Kerala against Goa on 24 November 2012. In August 2018, he was one of five players that were suspended for three games in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy, after showing dissent against Kerala's captain, Sachin Baby. He was the leading wicket-taker for Kerala in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy, with twelve dismissals in six matches. He was the leading wicket-taker for Kerala in the group-stage of the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy, with 44 dismissals in ten matches. He took a hat-trick in the 2019 season of Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy. In August 2019, he was named in the India Red team' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sachin Warrier
Sachin Warrier is an Indian playback singer and composer in the Malayalam film industry from Kerala. He became notable with the song "''Muthuchippi Poloru''" from the film ''Thattathin Marayathu''. He made his debut with the movie ''Malarvaadi Arts Club''. He was working as a software engineer in Tata Consultancy Services in Kochi. Later he resigned from the job to concentrate more on music. His latest work is as a composer for the movie ''Aanandam''. Early life Sachin was born in Calicut, and grew up in Kottakkal, in Malappuram district. He finished his engineering at FISAT, Angamaly, Kerala. Career He made his debut in playback singing while he was in college, in the year 2010, for the movie Malarvaadi Arts Club. He then joined Tata Consultancy Services and worked for three years, during which period he sang for movies including ''Thattathin Marayathu'', ''Neram'', ''Left Right Left'', ''Thira'', ''Rasputin'', ''Philips and the Monkey Pen'' and ''Bangalore Days''. In l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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