A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 Mahabat Khan ... Mahmud I Mahabat Khan (from the article "India") ...and her relatives and associates. The queen's alleged efforts to secure the prince of her ... Mahabat Khan Mosque (from the article "Peshawar") ...of Nowshera; Gor Khatri, once a Buddhist monastery and later a sacred Hindu temple, which ... Mahabharat Range (from the article "Nepal") A complex system of mountain ranges, some 50 miles in width and varying in elevation ... Mahabharata one of the two Sanskrit great epic poems of ancient India (the other being the ... [25 Related Articles] Mahabodhi temple (from the article "Bodh Gaya") ...have representations of the Vedic gods Indra and Surya, and the railing medallions are carved ... Mahabodhi temple (from the article "Pagan") ...It is much revered and famous for its huge golden umbrella finial encrusted with jewels. ... Mahadaji Sindhia (from the article "India") ...(1761). Again, like the Holkars, the Sindhias were based largely in central India, first at ... Mahadammayaza (from the article "Toungoo Dynasty") ...and the victory over Arakan was never achieved. Instead, the Myanmar empire gradually disintegrated. The ... Mahadeo Hills sandstone hills located in the northern part of the Satpura Range, in southern Madhya Pradesh ... [1 Related Articles] Mahadeva temple (from the article "South Asian arts") ...Lakkundi temple is also the first to be built of chloritic schist, which is the ... Mahaica River (from the article "Guyana") ...the tributaries of the Essequibo, the Potaro, Mazaruni, and Cuyuni drain the northwest, and the ... Mahaicony River (from the article "Guyana") ...tributaries of the Essequibo, the Potaro, Mazaruni, and Cuyuni drain the northwest, and the Rupununi ... mahajan (from the article "Gujarat") Among the most durable and effective of the state's cultural institutions are the trade and ... Mahajan, Pramod Indian politician (b. Oct. 30, 1949, Mahbubnagar, Andhra Pradesh, India-d. May 3, 2006, Mumbai [Bombay], ... [1 Related Articles] mahajanapada (from the article "Uttar Pradesh") A systematic history of India and the area of Uttar Pradesh dates to the end ... Mahajanga town and major port, northwestern Madagascar. It lies on the island's northwest coast, at the ... Mahakala (from the article "Mahakala") in Tibetan Buddhism, one of the eight fierce protective deities. See dharmapala.Daikoku's association Mahakala (from the article "Hinduism") ...1.1.188). "Time" (kala) is thus another name for Yama, the god of ... Mahakam River river rising in the mountains of central Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan) and flowing about 400 miles ... [1 Related Articles] mahakathina (from the article "Buddhism") ...tree" are the usual components of the ceremony. The kathina celebration culminates ... mahakavya (from the article "South Asian arts") Poems of the second genre, the mahakavya ("great poem," but not to be confused with ... mahakavya a particular form of the Sanskrit literary style known as kavya. It is a short ... [1 Related Articles] Mahal, Taj American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and one of the pioneers of what came to be called ... Mahalapye village, eastern Botswana. It lies midway along the Mafikeng-Bulawayo railway and is 125 miles (200 ... Mahallah al-Kubra, Al- city, in the central Nile River delta of Lower Egypt, eastern Al-Gharbiyah muhafazah (governorate). It ... Mahalli, Jalal al-Din al- (from the article "Suyuti, al-") ...of Tafsir al-Jalalayn ("Commentary of the Two Jalals"), a word-by-word commentary on the Qur'an, the ... mahalwari system one of the three main revenue systems of land tenure in British India, the other ... Mahamat, Moussa Faki (from the article "Chad") ...sq mi) | Population (2005 est.): 9,657,000, excluding some 200,000 refugees from The Sudan | ... mahamudra (Sanskrit: "the great seal"), in Tantric Buddhism, the final goal, the union of all apparent ... [1 Related Articles] Mahamuni (from the article "Mandalay") ...on 729 white marble tablets, and the tablets are set up in a square, each ... Mahan, Alfred Thayer American naval officer and historian who was a highly influential exponent of sea power in ... [6 Related Articles] Mahan, Larry E. professional American rodeo wrangler, the first to win five consecutive Rodeo Cowboys Association (RCA; later ... Mahanadi River river in central India, rising in the hills of southeastern Madhya Pradesh state. Its upper ... [2 Related Articles] Mahanalesvara (from the article "South Asian arts") From Malava, the bhumija style spread to the neighbouring regions. To the north in Rajasthan, ... Mahananda River river in northern India and Bangladesh. It rises in the Darjeeling Hills in extreme northern ... Mahane Yehuda (from the article "Jerusalem") ...into cultural centres. Others include the Bukharan Quarter; Me'a She'arim, founded by Orthodox Jews from ... Mahanubhava (from the article "South Asian arts") With Bengali, Marathi is the oldest of the regional literatures in Indo-Aryan, dating from about ... Mahapadma (from the article "India") ...the death of Ajatashatru (c. 459 BCE) and a series of ineffectual rulers, Shaishunaga founded ... Mahaprabhu, Chaitanya (from the article "Hare Krishna") ...1896-1977). This movement is a Western outgrowth of the popular Bengali bhakti (devotional) yoga tradition, ... Mahaprajapati (from the article "Buddha") ...or a buddha; one astrologer said that there was no doubt, the child would become ... mahapurusa in Hindu, Jaina, and Buddhist belief, an individual of extraordinary destiny, distinguished by certain physical ... 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Mahasanghika (from Sanskrit mahasangha, "great order of monks"), early Buddhist school in India that, in its ... [3 Related Articles] Mahasena (from the article "Buddhism") ...monastery, which eventually included Hinayana, Mahayana, and even Vajrayana monks. Although these cosmopolitan tendencies were ... mahasiddha in the Tantric, or esoteric, traditions of India and Tibet, a person who, by the ... [2 Related Articles] Mahasthamaprapta (from the article "Buddhism") ...Amitayus (Sanskrit: "Infinite Lifespan"). He is flanked in the Pure Land he created in fulfillment ... Mahasthan (from the article "Bogra") The site of Mahasthan (identified by inscriptions as Pundravardhana), capital of the Pundra dynasty, lies ... Mahathir bin Mohamad Malaysian politician, who served as prime minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003, overseeing his ... [2 Related Articles] Mahavairocana-sutra text of late Tantric Buddhism and a principal scripture of the large Japanese Buddhist sect ... 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[12 Related Articles] Mahavishnu Orchestra (from the article "McLaughlin, John") ...Brew (both 1969) and played in Tony Williams's seminal jazz-rock trio Lifetime. In 1970 he ... mahavrata (from the article "Jain vrata") in Jainism, a religion of India, any of the vows (vratas) that ... mahavratin (from the article "Kapalika and Kalamukha") ...because of the black mark, or tilaka, customarily worn on their foreheads) ... Mahaweli Ganga (Sinhalese: "Great Sandy River"), river, central and eastern Sri Lanka. At 208 mi (335 km) ... [1 Related Articles] mahayajna (from the article "yajna") ...the professional class of priests, the modern Brahmans, who are still required to officiate at ... Mahayana movement that arose within Indian Buddhism around the beginning of the Common Era and became ... [35 Related Articles] Mahayana-sraddhotpada-sastra (Sanskrit: "Treatise on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana"), relatively brief but influential exposition ... [1 Related Articles] Mahayoga (from the article "Buddhism") ...the convergence of the two truths and meditation on the pentad of buddhas; Yoga, which ... Mahayogini (from the article "Hinduism") ...One form of Shaktism identifies the goddess (usually Durga) with brahman and ... mahayuga (from the article "chronology") ...successive cycles constituting successive periods of evolution and involution of the universe. The period calculated ... Mahbub ul Haq Pakistani economist who in 1990 created the Human Development Index, which the United Nations Development ... Mahbubnagar town, administrative headquarters of Mahbubnagar district, west central Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. Located on ... mahdi (Arabic: "divinely guided one"), in Islamic eschatology, a messianic deliverer who will fill the Earth ... [6 Related Articles] Mahdi Army (from the article "Iraq") ...to the brink of civil war and led to the deaths of tens of thousands ... Mahdi, al- creator of a vast Islamic state extending from the Red Sea to Central Africa and ... [12 Related Articles] Mahdi, al- (from the article "Muqanna', al-") religious leader, originally a fuller (cloth processor) from Merv, in Khorasan, who led a revolt ... Mahdi, Sayyid 'Abd al-Rahman al- (from the article "Mahdist") ...in the Battle of Omdurman (q.v.; Sept. 2, 1898); he himself was killed in the ... Mahdia town and fishing port located on Al-Sahil (Sahel), the coastal plain region in eastern Tunisia, ... [2 Related Articles] Mahdist (Arabic: "Helper"), follower of al-Mahdi (Muhammad Ahmad ibn as-Sayyid 'Abd Allah) or of his successor ... [4 Related Articles] Mahdiyyah (from the article "Sudan, history of the") Muhammad Ahmad ibn 'Abd Allah was the son of a Dunqulahwi boatbuilder who claimed descent ... Mahe (from the article "Pondicherry") The Mahe sector consists of two parts: the quaint, picturesque town of Mahe, with all ... Mahe (from the article "Seychelles") Seychelles is composed of two main island groups: the Mahe group of 40 central, mountainous ... Mahe town in Pondicherry union territory, which is an enclave in northern Kerala state, southwestern India. ... [1 Related Articles] Mahe Island largest island of the Seychelles archipelago, Republic of Seychelles, in the western Indian Ocean. The ... [2 Related Articles] Mahendra king of Nepal from 1955 to 1972. [2 Related Articles] Mahendra propagator of Buddhism in Ceylon. Generally believed to be the son of the Indian emperor ... [1 Related Articles] Mahendrapala (from the article "Gurjara-Pratihara Dynasty") ...at Kannauj. Nagabhata II was succeeded by his son Ramabhadra, about 833, who after a ... Mahendraparvata (from the article "Jayavarman II") ...Indrapura, on the lower Mekong River east of Kampong (Kompong) Cham; then, moving northwards, at ... Mahendravarman I (from the article "Pallava Dynasty") ...(7th century) at Mahabalipuram (Mamallapuram), once a flourishing port. The mother of the Pallava ruler ... Maher, Bill American comedian and talk-show host known for his acerbic political commentary. [1 Related Articles] Maher, Joseph Irish-born American actor who, over the course of his more than 40-year career, filled a ... Maherero (from the article "Namibia") ...the southward-moving Herero and the northward-migrating Nama. In 1870 a peace treaty was signed with ... Maherero, Samuel (from the article "Namibia") ...reduced the Herero people by about 90 percent (80-85 percent dead, 5-10 percent in exile). ... Mahesh Yogi, Maharishi Hindu religious leader who introduced the practice of transcendental meditation (TM) to the West. [4 Related Articles] Maheshe, Serge (from the article "Congo, Democratic Republic of the") ...the civilian population and forced some 650,000 people to flee their homes. Other violent episodes ... Maheshwar town, western Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It lies just north of the Narmada River. ... Mahesvari (from the article "Saptamatrka") ..."Seven Divine Mothers"), in Hinduism, a group of seven mother-goddesses, each of whom is the ... Mahesvari (from the article "Maheshwar") town, western Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It lies just north of the Narmada River. ... Mahfouz, Naguib Egyptian novelist and screenplay writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, ... [5 Related Articles] Mahfuz (from the article "Adal") ...raids and skirmishes. In the 16th century, Adal rose briefly to international importance by launching ... Mahi River stream in western India, rising in the western Vindhya Range, just south of Sardarpur, and ... Mahikavati (from the article "Mumbai") ...Point was probably built during the rule of Shilahara chiefs from the Konkan coast (9th-13th ... Mahillon, Victor-Charles Belgian musical scholar who collected, described, and copied musical instruments and wrote on acoustics and ... [2 Related Articles] Mahilyow oblast (province), east-central Belarus, occupying an area of 11,200 square miles (29,000 square km) in ... Mahilyow city and administrative centre of Mahilyow oblast (province), east-central Belarus, on the Dnieper River. It ... Mahindra Malla, Raja (from the article "Kathmandu") ...earthquake in 1934 resulted in the construction of many modern-style buildings. The city's most notable ... Mahipala (from the article "India") ...referred to the kingdom of Juzr (which is generally identified as Gurjara) and its strong ... Mahipala I (from the article "India") ...At the end of the 9th century, however, the Pala kingdom declined, with feudatories in ... Mahir Pasha, 'Ali jurist and official who served three times as prime minister of Egypt. 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