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Muscovado, a type of sugar called khand in Indian English; Pauson–Khand reaction, an organic chemical reaction; Sach Khand, a Sikh religious concept; Khande di Pahul, the Sikh ceremony of initiation also known as Amrit Sanchar; Khand or Kāṇḍa, a Sanskrit word meaning "chapter", used in the names of the chapters of some Hindu books, e.g ...
[7] [8] The mountain range called Lokaloka, meaning "world-no-world", stretches across this final sea, delineating the known world from the dark void. [9] Jambudvipa, also known as Sudarśanadvīpa, forms the innermost concentric island in the above scheme. Its name is said to derive from the jambu tree, Syzygium cumini.
[6] [7] In India, most khand (muscovado) is produced by 150 small to medium scale private manufacturers overseen by the Khadi and Village Industries Commission . These producers use traditional chemical-free organic manual shearing methods, each operating between 100 and 120 days per year, with a typical capacity of between 200 and 350 tons of ...
The word khanda has its origins in the Sanskrit khaḍga [3] (खड्ग) or khaṅga, from a root khaṇḍ meaning "to break, divide, cut, destroy". The older word for a bladed weapon, asi, is used in the Rigveda in reference to either an early form of the sword or to a sacrificial knife or dagger to be used in war.
The main symbol traditionally used in the Guru Granth Sahib and Gurdwaras around the world is "Ik Onkar". Traditionally, it was very common to see "Ik Onkar" above the entrance to a Gurdwara, or on the front page of the Guru Granth Sahib. The other one was the Aad Chand. It is an amalgam of 3 symbols: [2] A double-edged khanda (sword) in the centre
Kulamandan Khand (Nepali: कुलमण्डन खाण्ड) was the founder of Shah dynasty and the ancestor of King Prithivi Narayan Shah The title Shah was given by the king of delhi to khand thakuri of kaski for the act bravery.
Sach Khand (Gurmukhi: ਸਚਖੰਡ) is a term used in Sikhism to denote an individual's union with God. [1] Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, described a hierarchy of five spiritual levels in the Japji Sahib. [1] The highest level in this hierarchy is known as the Sach Khand where the individual attains a mystical union with God. [1]
The Sahyadri-khanda existed by the 13th century, as Hemadri's Chatur-varga-chintamani (mid-13th century) quotes its fragmnets. [7]German academic Alexander Henn, citing Stephan Hillyer Levitt and João Manuel Pacheco de Figueiredo, describes the Sahyadri-khanda as an "apparently recently organized and somewhat deficient edition of disaparate texts".