Amrita literally means "immortality" and is often referred to in ancient Indian texts as nectar or ambrosia and carries the same meaning.
Amrita may also refer to:
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''Amrita'' (Gujarati novel), 1965 novel in Gujarati by Indian writer Raghuveer Chaudhari
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''Amrita'' (Yoshimoto novel), 1994 novel by Banana Yoshimoto
Health and education
Mata Amritanandamayi
Institutions associated with Indian spiritual leader
Mata Amritanandamayi
Mātā Amritānandamayī Devī (born Sudhamani Idamannel; 27 September 1953), often known as Amma ("Mother"), is an Indian Hindu spiritual leader, guru and humanitarian, who is revered as 'the hugging saint' by her followers.
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Amrita Hospital, Kochi, Kerala, India
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Amrita Hospital, Faridabad, Harayana, India
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Amrita Schools of Business, business schools in India
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Amrita Schools of Engineering
Amrita Schools of Engineering are private engineering schools in India part of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Coimbatore which is spread across its five campuses in Amritapuri (Kollam), Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore, and Amaravati. ...
, engineering schools in India
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Amrita College of Engineering & Technology, Erachakulam, Tamil Nadu, India
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Amrita Vidyalayam, chain of secondary schools in India
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Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (or Amrita University) is a private deemed university based in Coimbatore, India. It currently has 7 campuses with 16 constituent schools across the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka ...
, private university in Coimbatore, India
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Amrita Learning, Indian online education platform
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Amrita Lal Dey College
Amrita Lal Dey College is a college in the city of Barishal, Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population ...
, Barisal, Bangladesh
People
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Amrita Acharia, Norwegian actress of Nepalese origin
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Amrita Agrahari
Amrita Devi Agrahari ( ne, अमृता देवी अग्रहरी) is a Nepalese politician representing People's Socialist Party, Nepal and current member of the House of Representatives. She was elected from the Indigenous peoples ...
, Nepalese politician
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Amrita Arora, Indian actress in Hindi cinema
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Amrita Basu
Amrita Basu is an American academic and political scientist. She currently is a professor at Amherst College where she holds affiliations in the departments of Political Science, Sexuality, Women's, & Gender Studies, Asian Languages & Civilization ...
, Indian-American academic
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Amrita Chattopadhyay
Amrita Chattopadhayay is a Bengali film actress. Her debut film was Buddhadeb Dasgupta's ''Anwar ka Ajab Kissa'' After that, she acted in a number of Bengali, Hindi, and multilingual films.
Early life and education
Amrita did her schooling at ...
, Indian actress in Bengali cinema
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Amrita Chaudhry
Amrita Chaudhry (26 June 1972 – 22 October 2012) was an Indian print media journalist working as Principal Correspondent with the newspaper ''The Indian Express''. In her decade long career with the newspaper, Amrita earned wide recognition fo ...
, Indian journalist
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Amrita Cheema
Amrita Cheema is an Indian journalist. She has been working since 1999 as a news presenter with the German international TV broadcaster Deutsche Welle-TV. From 2005 to 2008, she spent some years with the Australian broadcaster SBS Television.
C ...
, Indian journalist
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Amrita Gogoi, Indian film and television actress
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Amrita Hunjan
Amrita Hunjan (born 25 June 1984) is a British-Indian model and singer. She is known for being a singer in the R'n'B/pop band Rouge. Amrita is also known in the British Asian community for being the winner of Miss India UK 2004 and Miss India Wor ...
, British-Indian model and singer
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Amrita Kak
Amrita Kak is a Bollywood singer who has made music for many Bollywood films. She is the daughter of Indian politician Beena Kak, and married to Business man Riju Jhunjhunwala Actor Salman Khan was responsible for introducing her to the film in ...
, Indian musician
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Amrita Lal Basu
Amrita Lal Basu (1853–1929) was a playwright and stage actor of Calcutta. He was one of the pioneers of the public theatre in Bengal in British era. He is well known for his farces and satirical plays.
Works
*''Byapika Biday'' (1926)
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, Indian playwright
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Amrita Meghwal
Amrita Meghwal (born 19 November 1986) is a former MLA of Jalore. Who won from the Jalore Constituency as a BJP nominee is the First youngest candidate. She defeated Congress's Ramlal with a margin of 46,800 vote
Voting is a method by wh ...
, Indian politician
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Amrita Mukherjee, Indian television actor
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Amrita Narlikar
Amrita Narlikar is the president of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg, Germany. She is also an Honorary Fel ...
, Indian academic
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Amrita Patel, Indian businesswoman
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Amrita Prakash, Indian model and actress
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Amrita Pritam, Indian writer
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Amrita Puri
Amrita Puri (born 20 August 1983) is an Indian actress. She made her film debut with the ensemble romantic comedy-drama ''Aisha'' (2010), which earned her Filmfare nominations for Best Female Debut and Best Supporting Actress. Puri had her ...
, Indian actress
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Amrita Raichand, Indian celebrity chef
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Amrita Rao, Indian model and actress
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Amrita Rawat, Indian politician, sister-in law of Prem Rawat
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Amrita Sawaram
Amrita Sawaram (born 13 August 1980) is a Mauritian badminton player. She won the gold medal at the 2000 African Championships in the women's singles event, made her as the first Mauritian female to win that competition. Sawaram competed at the ...
, Indo-Mauritian badminton player
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Amrita Sher-Gil, Indian painter
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Amrita Shinde, Indian cricketer
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Amrita Singh
Amrita Singh (born 9 February 1958) is an Indian actress. Through her films such as ''Betaab'' and '' Mard'', she gained popularity and became a well-known and popular actress in the 1980s. She took a break from acting in the early 1990s for a ...
, Indian actress
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Amrita Thapa, Nepali politician
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Amrita Thapar
Amrita Thapar was Miss India 2005. She represented India at the Miss Universe pageant. References
Femina Miss India winners
Indian beauty pageant winners
Female models from Maharashtra
Living people
Miss Universe 2005 contestants
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, Indian model
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Amrita Virkm Indian musician
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Amritha Aiyer
Amritha Aiyer (born 14 May 1994) is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil and Telugu language films. She made her acting debut in the Tamil film ''Padaiveeran'' (2018), and her Telugu debut with ''Red'' (2021).
Early life
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is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil and Telugu language films
Others
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Amrita TV, Indian TV channel broadcasting in Malayalam, owned by Mata Amritanandamayi
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Amrita Island, Bourne, Massachusetts, US
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Amrita Bazar Patrika
''Amrita Bazar Patrika'' was one of the oldest daily newspapers in India. Originally published in Bengali script, it evolved into an English format published from Kolkata and other locations such as Cuttack, Ranchi and Allahabad. The paper di ...
'', defunct Indian newspaper
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Amrita Club
The Amrita Club building is located at the southeast corner of Church (US 44/ NY 55) and Market streets in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. It was once home to the club, one of the city's most prestigious gentlemen's organizations. In 1982 i ...
, United States historic place
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Amrita movement
Amrita is a Hindu movement named after Mata Amritanandamayi.
Founder
Mata Amritanandamayi is often described as the ''hugging saint''. She has hugged countless people. A hug from her is said to have brought peace to the devotees. Ammachi, as she i ...
, Indian Hindu movement of Mata Amritanandamayi
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Amrit (disambiguation)
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Amrut (disambiguation)
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Amrutham (disambiguation)
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