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  2. Plough - Wikipedia

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    Plough. Traditional ploughing: a farmer works the land with horses and plough. A plough or (US) plow (both pronounced / plaʊ /) is a farm tool for loosening or turning the soil before sowing seed or planting. [1] Ploughs were traditionally drawn by oxen and horses but in modern farms are drawn by tractors. A plough may have a wooden, iron or ...

  3. Balarama - Wikipedia

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    Nishatha and Ulmuka (sons) [6] Dynasty. Yaduvamsha – Chandravamsha. Balarama (Sanskrit: बलराम, IAST: Balarāma) is a Hindu god, and the elder brother of Krishna. [7][8] He is particularly significant in the Jagannath tradition, as one of the triad deities. [9] He is also known as Haladhara, Halayudha, Baladeva, Balabhadra, and ...

  4. Hoe (tool) - Wikipedia

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    A hoe is an ancient and versatile agricultural and horticultural hand tool used to shape soil, remove weeds, clear soil, and harvest root crops. Shaping the soil includes piling soil around the base of plants (hilling), digging narrow furrows (drills) and shallow trenches for planting seeds or bulbs. Weeding with a hoe includes agitating the ...

  5. Harrow (tool) - Wikipedia

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    Harrow (tool) In agriculture, a harrow is a farm implement used for surface tillage. It is used after ploughing for breaking up and smoothing out the surface of the soil. The purpose of harrowing is to break up clods and to provide a soil structure, called tilth, that is suitable for planting seeds. Coarser harrowing may also be used to remove ...

  6. Mizar and Alcor - Wikipedia

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    Mizar is known as Vasishtha, one of the Saptarishi, and Alcor as Arundhati, wife of Vasishtha, in Indian astronomy. [8] As a married couple, they are considered to symbolize marriage and in some Hindu communities to this day priests conducting a wedding ceremony allude to or point out the asterism as a symbol of the closeness marriage brings to a couple.

  7. Tillage - Wikipedia

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    Tillage is the agricultural preparation of soil by mechanical agitation of various types, such as digging, stirring, and overturning. Examples of human-powered tilling methods using hand tools include shoveling, picking, mattock work, hoeing, and raking. Examples of draft-animal-powered or mechanized work include ploughing (overturning with ...

  8. Akshaya Tritiya - Wikipedia

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    A vintage religious token depicting Lord Rishabhanatha, accepting sugarcane juice from King Shreyans. Akshaya Tritiya, also known as Akti or Akha Teej, is an annual Jain and Hindu spring festival. [3] It falls on the third tithi (lunar day) of the bright half (Shukla Paksha) of the Hindu month of Vaisakha. [4][5][6]

  9. Halasana - Wikipedia

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    Halasana. Halasana. Halasana (Sanskrit: हलासन; IAST: halāsana) or Plough pose[1] is an inverted asana in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise. Its variations include Karnapidasana with the knees by the ears, and Supta Konasana with the feet wide apart.