is mainly a language of Buddhism, interspersed in development between Sanskrit and new Indian languages
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Stupa – a tall conical building in Buddhist architecture
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Mantra – here: a Buddhist prayer accompanied by the spinning of a particular wheel
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Bodh Gaya – in this place, Buddha reached Nirvana (enlightenment)
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Sarnath – this is where Buddha organized the first Buddhist community
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Sitar – a stringed instrument in Indian classical music
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Rajasthan – a state in northwestern India. Its majority is the Thar Desert. Jodhpur, Jaipur, and Udaipur are the most visited tourist places in India
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Phidias (480 B.C. – 430 B.C.) – the Greek sculptor, the greatest in the Classical period
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Venus de Milo – a statue of the Goddess of love (II century B.C.) had no arms on the Melos, Greece
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Jhelum – a river in Srinagár, the capital of the Indian state of Kashmir
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Sheherazade – is the storyteller in “One thousand and one nights”
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A. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity describes three dimensions of space and one dimension of time as the space-time continuum
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Calcutta – the capital of the state of West Bengal, where the author was a post-graduate student for a year and then worked in the Russian Consulate General for seven years, was renamed Kolkata in 2001
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The Noble Eightfold Path – one of the doctrines of Buddhism
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Singapore – the country in southeastern Asia on the small island of Singapore
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Bangkok – the capital of Thailand in southeastern Asia
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Vishnu – one of Hinduism’s main gods, the Guardian of the Universe, Lakshmi – the goddess of beauty in Hinduism, Vishnu’s wife
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Orissa – the East Indian state
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Kailas – the mountain in the Tibetan Highlands, in mythology – the abode of the gods. From antiquity to the present day, climbing the hill is forbidden by four religions, and now the UN
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Ganesh – in Hinduism, the God of wisdom and prosperity with the head of an elephant
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Augur – foreteller in ancient Rome
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I heard about that disaster – and, names, places – in the village where countrymen looked as if not recovered even thirty years later – small walking skin covered skeletons. Bengal had rice from adjacent Burma. After the Japanese’s seizure in 1942, the supplies stopped, and a crop failure broke out at home
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Tisa – the river in the Ukrainian Karpaty mountains
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“Ex Oriente Lux” – “From the East there is Light”
