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    Adi Shankaracharya (Sanskrit: आदि शङ्कर, आदि शङ्कराचार्य, romanized: Ādi Śaṅkara, Ādi Śaṅkarācārya, lit. 'First Shankaracharya', pronounced [aːdɪ ɕɐŋkɐraːt͡ɕaːrjɐ])...
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    in the Battle of Talikota in 1565 by the combined armies of the Deccan sultanates. The empire is named after its capital city of Vijayanagara, as Hampi...
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  • of states during the Middle Ages Marinid Sultanate (1244–1465) Wattasid dynasty (1472–1549) Saadi Sultanate (1510–1649) Republic of Salé (1627–1668) 'Alawi...
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    Shankara. While the dasanāmis associated with the Sankara maths follow the procedures attributed to Adi Śankara, some of these orders remained partly or fully...
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    the peetham or matha is said to have been established by acharya Śrī Ādi Śaṅkara to preserve and propagate Sanātana Dharma and Advaita Vedānta, the doctrine...
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    authority of the Vijayanagara state as deriving directly from that of the Sultanate." The Vidyashankara temple in Sringeri is the samadhi of Vidya shankara...
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    Malik Kafur, the head general of Alauddin Khalji, the ruler of Delhi Sultanate, reached Rameswaram during his political campaign in spite of stiff resistance...
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    assembly constituency. The present MLA representing the constituency is Sankara Rao Namburu of YSRCP. The town is a centre of pilgrimage for both Hindus...
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    it was founded by Adi Sankara of Kaladi, tracing its history back to the 5th century BCE. A related claim is that Adi Sankara came to Kanchipuram, and...
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  • philosophy and Raghavendra Swami were born here.[citation needed] Adi Sankara, proponent of advaita found enlightenment in Sringeri which became the...
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    Bangladesh. In Kashmir, the dynasty also likely built a temple knows as Sankara Gaureshwara. In the political history of Bengal, Sena dynasty was a mighty...
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  • decreed for his subjects. Among his closest confidants were Suhabhatta, Sankara (chief physician), and Laddaraja. Sikandar was married to at-least three...
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    caused by the Islamic Delhi Sultanate. He and his brothers, suggest Paul Hacker and other scholars, wrote about Śankara as well as extensive Advaitic...
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    hypotheses about the caste system in Hindu states during the medieval Delhi Sultanate period (~1200 to 1500), and the existence of a caste system, as being...
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    and Kalhana records the defeat of Prithvi Chandra Raja of Trigartta by Sankara Varmma of Kashmir towards the end of the ninth century. 3 Jalandhar became...
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    Pallava dynasty Medieval Cholas Later Cholas Later Pandyas Delhi Sultanate Madurai Sultanate Vijayanagara Empire Thanjavur Nayaks Thanjavur Marathas Company...
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  •  Lebanon Killed by a car bomb planted by unidentified militant Thomas Sankara President of Burkina Faso October 15, 1987 Ouagadougou  Burkina Faso Soldiers...
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    Gopalier Ramakrishna Ayyar (1946). The Economy of a South Indian Temple: (Sankara Parvati Prize Essay of the Madras University). Annamalai University. p...
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    is situated in Mangalagiri. The nonprofit or charity hospitals are the Sankara Eye Hospital. Aluri Chakrapani, film producer Jamuna, actress Krishna,...
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  • and Sankara Balakrishna Dikshit (1896). The Indian Calendar. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. p. 3. Retrieved 1 January 2024. Robert Sewell and Sankara Balakrishna...
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    Bhanji, was a successful spice trader who had moved from India to the Sultanate of Zanzibar, where Kingsley's father lived until moving to the United...
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    Prasadhana compiled by Daniel Smith and Silpa Ratnakara compiled by Narmada Sankara provide a more extensive list of Hindu temple types. Ancient Sanskrit manuals...
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  • Sultanate Mayyafariqin Ayyubid Sultanate 1260 A Jacobite priest was crucified on the orders of Ayyubid emir Al-Kamil Muhammad Egypt Mamluk Sultanate Sultan...
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  • (1966) K.P. Kesava Menon – Public Affairs (1966) Govinda Shankara Kurup (G. Sankara Kurup) – Literature & Education (1968); poet Poyipilli Kunju Kurup, (Guru...
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  • the caste of the family from which he begs his food. Scholars like Adi Sankara affirm that not only is Brahman beyond all varṇas, the man who is identified...
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    Vikramashila by Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji, a general of the Delhi Sultanate, are thought to have severely weakened the practice of Buddhism in East...
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    is apparent in the suggestion that the (Advaita) Vedanta philosophy of Sankara (c. eighth century CE) constitutes the central philosophy of Hinduism....
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    instrumental music, giants such as Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu (violin), Emani Sankara Sastry (veena), Sheik Chinna Moulana (Nadaswaram), and Chitti Babu (veena)...
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    good specimen of the art of metal-casting in this period". Śrīrāma and Śaṅkara Goyala term is "true memorial of Gupta metalsmith's artistic genius". It...
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  • that is, around 500 BCE. Nakshatra Tithi Nityayoga Vāra Robert Sewell and Sankara Balakrishna Dikshit (1896). The Indian Calendar. London: Swan Sonnenschein...
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