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  2. South Asian riddles - Wikipedia

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    The answers to the first three questions, when combined in the manner of a charade, yield the answer to the fourth question. The first answer is bird ( vi ), the second dog ( çva ), the third sun ( mitra ), and the whole is Viçvamitra , Rama 's first teacher and counselor and a man noted for his outbursts of rage.

  3. Prashna Upanishad - Wikipedia

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    Sage Pippalada opens the answers to the three questions by listing five gross elements, five senses and five organs of action as expression of deities. [31] In verses 2.3 and 2.4, the Prashna Upanishad states that Prana (breath, spirit) is the most essential and powerful of all, because without it all other deities cannot survive in a creature ...

  4. SWAYAM - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] SWAYAM has accumulated 203 partnering institutes, 2,748 completed courses, 12,541,992 student enrollments, 915,538 exam registrations, and 654,664 successful certificates. [7] SWAYAM (meaning 'Self' in Sanskrit) [8] is an acronym that stands for "Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds" [9]

  5. Sanskrit literature - Wikipedia

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    Sanskrit literature is a broad term for all literature composed in Sanskrit.This includes texts composed in the earliest attested descendant of the Proto-Indo-Aryan language known as Vedic Sanskrit, texts in Classical Sanskrit as well as some mixed and non-standard forms of Sanskrit.

  6. Yaksha Prashna - Wikipedia

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    The Yaksha Prashna (IAST: yakṣa praśna), also known as the Dharma Baka Upakhyana (the Legend of the Virtuous Crane) or the Akshardhama, is the story of a question-and-answer dialogue between Yudhishthira and a yaksha in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.

  7. The unanswerable questions - Wikipedia

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    The Sanskrit word acintya means "incomprehensible, surpassing thought, unthinkable, beyond thought." [web 1] In Indian philosophy, acinteyya is [T]hat which is to be unavoidably accepted for explaining facts, but which cannot stand the scrutiny of logic.

  8. Yogatattva Upanishad - Wikipedia

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    A Sanskrit text, it is one of eleven Yoga Upanishads attached to the Atharvaveda, [3] and one of twenty Yoga Upanishads in the four Vedas. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is listed at number 41 in the serial order of the Muktika enumerated by Rama to Hanuman in the modern era anthology of 108 Upanishads. [ 6 ]

  9. Indian classical drama - Wikipedia

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    A bibliography of the Sanskrit drama, with an introductory sketch of the dramatic literature of India. AMS Press Inc., New York. Baumer, Rachel Van M.; James R. Brandon (1993). "A Sanskrit Play In Performance by Shanta Gandhi". Sanskrit drama in performance. Vol. 2. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. pp. 110– 140. ISBN 81-208-0772-3.