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  2. Devanagari numerals - Wikipedia

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    The word śūnya for zero was calqued into Arabic as صفر sifr, meaning 'nothing', which became the term "zero" in many European languages via Medieval Latin zephirum. [ 1 ] Variants

  3. Mandakranta metre - Wikipedia

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    Two recitations of Meghadūta (minutes 7:25 and 32.35). Meghadūta: transliterated text; Meghadūta sung to music composed by Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. (Also here) Lecture (in Hindi) on Mandākrāntā metre by Prof. Ravendra Mishra. (The stanza above is recited at minute 3:45.) Lecture (in Hindi) on Mandākrāntā metre by Dr Vasudev Prasad.

  4. Devanagari - Wikipedia

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    For example, the native Hindi word karnā is written करना (ka-ra-nā). [60] The government of these clusters ranges from widely to narrowly applicable rules, with special exceptions within. While standardised for the most part, there are certain variations in clustering, of which the Unicode used on this page is just one scheme.

  5. 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]

  6. Devanagari (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    Devanagari is a Unicode block containing characters for writing languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Bodo, Maithili, Sindhi, Nepali, and Sanskrit, among others.In its original incarnation, the code points U+0900..U+0954 were a direct copy of the characters A0-F4 from the 1988 ISCII standard.

  7. Nāgarī script - Wikipedia

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    The Nāgarī script is the ancestor of Devanagari, Nandinagari and other variants, and was first used to write Prakrit and Sanskrit.The term is sometimes used as a synonym for Devanagari script.

  8. Doha (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    Doha (Urdu: دوہا, Hindi: दोहा, Punjabi: ਦੋਹਾ) is a form of self-contained rhyming couplet in poetry composed in Mātrika metre. This genre of poetry first became common in Apabhraṃśa and was commonly used in Hindustani language poetry. [1] Among the most famous dohas are those of Sarahpa, Kabir, Mirabai, Rahim, Tulsidas ...

  9. Yogatattva Upanishad - Wikipedia

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    The Telugu version of the Yogatattva Upanishad has 142 verses, [25] while the shortest surviving manuscript in Sanskrit is just 15 verses. [8] Both versions open by hailing Hindu god Vishnu as the supreme Purusha or supreme spirit, the great Yogin, the Supreme Being, the great Tapasvin (performer of austerities), and a lamp in the path of the ...