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  2. Kumbhakarna - Wikipedia

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    Kumbhakarna (Sanskrit: कुम्भकर्ण, lit. pot-eared) is a powerful rakshasa and younger brother of Ravana from the Hindu epic Ramayana. [1] Despite his gigantic size and appetite, he is described as a virtuous character and a great warrior in Hindu texts.

  3. Janani Janmabhumishcha Swargadapi Gariyasi - Wikipedia

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    Translation: "Friends, riches and grains are highly honoured in this world. (But) mother and motherland are superior even to heaven." In another version, it is spoken by Rama to Lakshmana: अपि स्वर्णमयी लङ्का न मे लक्ष्मण रोचते |

  4. Convicts in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Several convicts had escaped into the bush and were left behind to unknown fates with the local aboriginal people. One such convict, the subsequently celebrated William Buckley, lived in the western side of Port Phillip for the next 32 years before approaching the new settlers and assisting as an interpreter for the indigenous peoples.

  5. Convicts 4 - Wikipedia

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    Convicts 4, also known as Reprieve, is a 1962 American neo noir crime film starring Ben Gazzara and directed by Millard Kaufman. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The film is a fictionalized version of the life of death row convict John Resko, who wrote his autobiography: Reprieve .

  6. Devanagari - Wikipedia

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    The end of a sentence or half-verse may be marked with the "।" symbol (called a daṇḍa, meaning "bar", or called a pūrṇa virām, meaning "full stop/pause"). The end of a full verse may be marked with a double-daṇḍa, a "॥" symbol. A comma (called an alpa virām, meaning "short stop/pause") is used to denote a natural pause in speech.

  7. Richmond Gaol - Wikipedia

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    In the meantime, convicts were used as virtual slave labour to create all kinds of infrastructure like roads, bridges and public buildings. Finally the township of Richmond was proclaimed in 1824. A court house to service the police district in the area was built in 1825 and this was the start of the gaol building.

  8. Svarga - Wikipedia

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    The sacrifices that one performs are stated to journey directly to heaven, and are stored to await the sacrificer on his arrival. One hymn describes Svarga to be a realm that contains water-lilies and lotuses, lakes of butter with banks of honey, along with streams flowing with a number of foods such as wine, milk, curds, and water.

  9. Bible translations into Hindi and Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Kellogg's Hindi Grammar (1876, 1893) is still consulted today. [11] However, 18 years after Kellogg's death in 1899, Edwin Greaves of the London Missionary Society , and author of a Grammar of Modern Hindi (1896, 1908, 1921), in 1917 signalled his concerns about the adequacy of Hindi Bible translations in his Report on Protestant Hindi ...