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A poem of 120 [3] stanzas, it is one of Kālidāsa's most famous works.The work is divided into two parts, Purva-megha and Uttara-megha. It recounts how a yakṣa, a subject of King Kubera (the god of wealth), after being exiled for a year to Central India for neglecting his duties, convinces a passing cloud to take a message to his wife at Alaka on Mount Kailāsa in the Himālaya mountains. [4]
An E-8 crew member entering data using an AN/PYQ-10 before a flight. The AN/PYQ-10 Simple Key Loader (SKL) is a ruggedized, portable, hand-held fill device, for securely receiving, storing, and transferring data between compatible cryptographic and communications equipment.
According to the story told in the Shāh Nāma (The Book of the Kings, Persia's late 10th-century national epic by Ferdowsi), Borzuy sought his king's permission to make a trip to Hindustan in search of a mountain herb he had read about that is "mingled into a compound and, when sprinkled over a corpse, it is immediately restored to life."
Mayyazhippuzhayude Theerangalil (On the Banks of the Mayyazhi) is a Malayalam-language novel by M. Mukundan.The novel vividly and mystically describes the historic political and social background of the former French colony of Mahe (Mayyazhi). [1]
The novel is based on the true story of Braithwaite accepting a teaching post in a secondary school. The novel, in 22 chapters, gives insight into the politics of race and class in postwar London. In 1967, the novel was made into a film of the same name starring Sidney Poitier and Judy Geeson. The film's title song sung by Lulu became a U.S.
Samuel Lloyd Osbourne, [n 1] born in San Francisco in 1868, was the second child of Samuel Osbourne, an American military officer, and his wife, Fanny, born in 1840. [n 2] Samuel Osbourne being a "womanizer," [2] Fanny left him in 1875 and moved to Europe with her three children, "partly to escape as much as possible from unpleasant associations and partly to give her daughter the advantage of ...
The story itself is considered a performance so there is a synergy among the aforementioned elements. [1] In the story, the narrator may draw attention to the narrative or to himself as storyteller. [2] The structure often includes the following: Tell riddles to test the audience. Audience becomes a chorus and comments on the story.
The Westland edition of the book was published on 10 September 2010, in Delhi amidst a media frenzy. [19] It was launched by former UN diplomat Shashi Tharoor , who praised it. [ 19 ] The edited version of The Immortals of Meluha was accompanied by the release of an audiobook for the novel. [ 19 ]