In 1998, India's nuclear tests were code-named "Operation Shakti, " the Sanskrit word for strength.
" She quoted an ancient Sanskrit saying: "Truth is one, the wise pursue it variously.
The walls are decorated with works of art, some tracing the Sanskrit chanted by yogis.
Here, bas-reliefs of apsara dancers and pillars enlivened with Sanskrit inscriptions celebrating good deeds take on a rosy hue.
Further evidence of a 60-year cycle is referenced in ancient Sanskrit texts among observed monsoon rainfall cycles.
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They set up a business in lime mining and trading, called Mahaka after the Sanskrit word for masterpiece.
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Among the many features of the stone structure is a museum and artwork from the Sanskrit epic the Ramayana.
China developed a strong literate tradition before the innovation of an alphabet reached it via Sanskrit around 200 A.D.
The name, an acronym of the founding members'names, ironically means "God" in Sanskrit.
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For the BJP, however, those philosophical Sanskrit words had a purely political meaning.
These displaced people acquired a distinct name -- "Dravidian" -- derived from a Sanskrit word for people living south of the Vindhya.
They not only introduced alien customs and Sanskrit, but also drove most of the north's original and largely docile tribal inhabitants southward.
U.S.-based computer professional Avinash Chopde has created ITRANS, a program that transcribes words into Indian scripts, including Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Telugu and Sanskrit.
Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger has sung in Sanskrit on a new album by a supergroup, which stars Oscar-winning Indian musician AR Rahman.
BJP's allies joined forces to snuff out an attempt by the government to inject Sanskrit and Hindu scriptures into the curriculum for state schools.
This is an Indo-European concoction, derived from avancer, French for "to advance, " and the word sthapna, which means "well grounded" in Sanskrit, the ancient Indian language.
The government put together a panel of 100 historians and scientists that began cataloging 1, 500 yoga poses found in ancient texts written in Sanskrit, Urdu, and Persian.
Named Moksha (meaning liberation in Sanskrit) the custom 26ft (8m) pedal boat had a top speed of three knots, was self-righting and held supplies for months at sea.
There is the gangster who puts a pink towel on his head and says his prayers in Sanskrit as a break from describing how it feels to shoot somebody.
Derived from the Sanskrit root "bid, " which means "to divide, " the Vindhya traverses the center of the country from east to west, forcing a natural barrier between northern and southern India.
Sometimes I will find myself staring at the blinking Sanskrit of an airport arrivals and departures schedule to the point of no longer remembering where I'm going, or why I'm bothering.
In 1965, violent rioting erupted across Tamil Nadu over attempts by nationalist politicians in the north to ban English and impose Hindi, the national language derived from Sanskrit, on the entire country.
While their numbers have dwindled, their legacy remains: India's emblem is three lions perched on a pedestal, and the ubiquitous Indian surname Singh is a variation of the Sanskrit word for lion.
It was said, with little or no evidence, that he was an artist and a sculptor, that he knew Sanskrit, Russian, and Urdu, and that his wife and child had been killed in a horrific car crash.
The BBC's Ray Furlong says that another issue at the conference will be the standardisation of the Roma language, which is related to the ancient Sanskrit tongue of India, from where the gypsies migrated 1, 000 years ago.
"If I took you to a country where they were reading Sanskrit and I was writing that on the board - well anyone would behave badly - how bored would you be when you tried to follow it and all you could understand was the odd word, " says Mr Ryan.
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Mr. Friedland, who spent much of the 1970s traveling in India, where he studied Sanskrit, Hindu culture and Buddhism, once said he became interested in mining after stumbling upon an abandoned gold mine on property he was developing for a timber venture with Mr. Jobs, whom he met at Reed College in Portland, Ore.
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