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  2. Painted Grey Ware culture - Wikipedia

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    The Painted Grey Ware culture (PGW) is an Iron Age Indo-Aryan culture of the western Gangetic plain and the Ghaggar-Hakra valley in the Indian subcontinent, conventionally dated c.1200 to 600–500 BCE, [1] [2] or from 1300 to 500–300 BCE.

  3. Casket (decorative box) - Wikipedia

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    An Italian jewelry casket, 1857, carved walnut, lined with red velvet A casket [ 1 ] is a decorative box or container that is usually smaller than a chest and is typically decorated. In recent centuries they are often used as boxes for jewelry, but in earlier periods they were also used for keeping important documents and many other purposes. [ 2 ]

  4. Ranigat - Wikipedia

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    The word Ranigat is the combination of the words 'rani' and 'gat', from two different languages. 'Rani' is a Hindi word that means 'queen', [2] while 'gat' is a Pashto word that means a 'huge rock', hence the archaeological site of Ranigat, meaning "Queen's Rock".

  5. Casket - Wikipedia

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    Casket most often refers to: Coffin, a box used for the display and burial of corpses; Casket (decorative box), a decorated container, usually larger than about 10 centimetres (4 inches) in width and length, but smaller than a "chest" Chasse (casket), a decorated container typically from medieval Europe having a shape that resembles a house

  6. Relics of Sariputta and Moggallana - Wikipedia

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    According to Cunningham, people in ancient India sat facing the east during religious ceremonies and even used the word east (para) for "front", as well as the word south (dakshina) for "right" and the word north (vami) for "left", meaning the positioning of Sariputta's casket toward the south and Moggallana's casket toward the north symbolized ...

  7. Mṛcchakatika - Wikipedia

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    Their love blossoms following the clandestine meeting, and the courtesan entrusts her new lover with a casket of jewelry in an attempt to ensure a future meeting. Her plan is thwarted, however, when a thief, Sarvilaka, enters Cārudatta’s home and steals the jewels in an elaborate scheme to buy the freedom of his lover, Madanikā, who is ...

  8. Vermilion - Wikipedia

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    Vermilion has one important defect; it is liable to darken, or develop a purplish-gray surface sheen. [6] Cennino Cennini wrote, "Bear in mind ... that it is not in its character to be exposed to air, but it is more resistant on panel than on walls since, when it is used and laid on a wall, over a period of time, standing in the air, it turns ...

  9. Greige goods - Wikipedia

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    Silk rolls. Greige goods (Gray goods, Grey goods, Corah [1] [2] or korā) [3] are loom state woven fabrics, or unprocessed knitted fabrics. Greige goods undergo many subsequent processes, for instance, dyeing, printing, bleaching, and finishing, [4] [5] [6] prior to further converting to finished goods such as clothing, or other textile products. [7] "