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Babita; Barkha Bisht Sengupta; Barkha Singh; Bala Hijam; Barsha Priyadarshini; Barsha Rani Bishaya; Beena Banerjee; Bhagyashree Patwardhan; Bhairavi Goswami; Bhama
Aurat (lit. ' Woman ') is a 1967 Indian Hindi-language film produced and directed by S. S. Balan and S. S. Vasan.It is a remake of the 1966 Tamil film Chitthi.It stars Padmini, Feroz Khan, Rajesh Khanna, Pran, Nazima, O. P. Ralhan in pivotal roles, along with Kanhaiyalal, David, Lalita Pawar, Leela Chitnis in supporting roles.
Panchakanya, a pre-1945 lithograph from Ravi Varma Press.. The Panchakanya (Sanskrit: पञ्चकन्या, romanized: Pañcakanyā, lit. 'Five maidens') is a group of five iconic women of the Hindu epics, extolled in a hymn and whose names are believed to dispel sin when recited.
When Devanāgarī is used for writing languages other than Sanskrit, conjuncts are used mostly with Sanskrit words and loan words. Native words typically use the basic consonant and native speakers know to suppress the vowel when it is conventional to do so. For example, the native Hindi word karnā is written करना (ka-ra-nā). [60]
A ceremony welcoming the newly wed bride to her new home, with the feet dipped in a mixture of milk and alta. Alta has great cultural significance in Bengali and Odia culture [11] [12] [3] Regardless of religious beliefs, women traditionally adorn their hands and feet with alta for marriage [13] [7] and cultural festivals like Pohela Baishakh, Pohela Falgun and others.
A Hindu woman with a ghoonghat veil. A ghoonghat (ghunghat, ghunghta, ghomta, orhni, odani, laaj, chunari, jhund, kundh) is a headcovering or headscarf, worn primarily in the Indian subcontinent, by some married Hindu, Jain, and Sikh women to cover their heads, and often their faces.
For example, Brahmin women wear it in a particular way (called brahmni on the other side), while Aagri people from the Raigad district wear it in a knee-length fashion called 'adwa patal', whereas with a small variation the kunbi or the farmer women of the Raigad district and some parts of Ratnagiri as well wear nineyard ( called "uprati") .The ...
Sri (Odia: ଶ୍ରୀ ରାଗ, romanized: śrī rāga, also spelled Shri & Shree) is a rāga belonging to the tradition of Odissi music. [1] [2] [3] Falling under the meḷa of the same name, [4] the raga uses komala nisada swara and is traditionally associated with the melancholic karuna rasa. [5]