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  2. Hindu units of time - Wikipedia

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    Hindu units of time are described in Hindu texts ranging from microseconds to trillions of years, including cycles of cosmic time that repeat general events in Hindu cosmology. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Time ( kāla ) is described as eternal. [ 3 ]

  3. Aggañña Sutta - Wikipedia

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    The Buddha said that sooner or later, after a very long time, there would come a time when the world shrinks. At a time of contraction, beings are mostly born in the Abhassara Brahma world. And there they dwell, mind-made, feeding on delight, self-luminous, moving through the air, glorious — and they stay like that for a very long time.

  4. Kāla - Wikipedia

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    In Jainism, Kāla (Time) is infinite and is explained in two different ways: The measure of duration, known in the form of hours, days, like that. The cause of the continuity of function of things. However Jainism recognizes a very small measurement of time known as samaya which is an infinitely small part of a second.

  5. Muhurta - Wikipedia

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    Muhūrta (Sanskrit: मुहूर्त, romanized: muhūrtaṃ) [1] is a Hindu unit of time along with nimiṣa, kāṣṭhā, and kalā [2] in the Hindu calendar. In the Brāhmaṇas, muhūrta denotes a division of time: 1/30 of a day, or a period of 48 minutes. [3] An alternative meaning of "moment" is also common in the Brāhmanạs. [4]

  6. Histology - Wikipedia

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    [9] [19] Hematoxylin stains cell nuclei blue; eosin, an acidic dye, stains the cytoplasm and other tissues in different stains of pink. [9] [12] In contrast to H&E, which is used as a general stain, there are many techniques that more selectively stain cells, cellular components, and specific substances. [12]

  7. Hindustani vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, like all Indo-Aryan languages, has a core base of Sanskrit-derived vocabulary, which it gained through Prakrit. [1] As such the standardized registers of the Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu) share a common vocabulary, especially on the colloquial level. [ 2 ]

  8. Waqt (1965 film) - Wikipedia

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    Waqt (translation: Time) is a 1965 Indian Hindi-language Bollywood masala film directed by Yash Chopra, produced by B. R. Chopra and written by Akhtar Mirza and Akhtar-Ul-Iman. It was included in the British Film Institute's long list of films in consideration for its top ten of Indian films award.

  9. Stain - Wikipedia

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    Numerous naturally-occurring stains exist, such as rust on iron and a patina on bronze, [3] as do accidental stains such as from ketchup and oil on fabrics and other materials. Different types of material can be stained by different substances, and stain resistance is an important characteristic in modern textile engineering. [citation needed]