Devanagari (; ; Devanāgarī — compound of " deva " () and " nāgarī " () ), also called Nagari ( Nāgarī,, the name of its parent writing system ), is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal.

It is a misconception that the Gorkhali took their name from the Gorkha region of Nepal ; actually, the region was given its name after the Gorkhali had established their control of these areas.

His original family name was Rana but in Nepal people mistook his Rajput title of Kunwar for his family name, Kunwar is a title denoting royal lineage used by Rajput princes in northern India.

or Satra ( 17 ) Family ) murdered Ranodip Singh and the sons of Jung Bahadur, stole the name of Jung Bahadur and took control of Nepal.

However the company is known to the general public by the brand name Nepal Telecom as registered trademark.

The name ' Nepali ' is ambiguous, as it was originally a pronunciation of Nepal Bhasa, the Tibeto-Burman language of the capital Kathmandu.

Chepang is the commonly used name given to an indigenous ethnic group living in central and southern Nepal.

The rupee is the common name for the monetary unit of account in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mauritius, Seychelles, Maldives, Indonesia ( as the Rupiah ), and formerly in Burma and Afghanistan.

Maharani Raj Rajeshwari Devi of Nepal became regent in 1799 in the name of her son, Girvan Yuddha Bikram Shah Deva, after the abdication of her husband, Rana Bahadur Shah, who became a sanyasi.

The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, the Supreme Court of India, the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the Supreme Court of Nepal, the Supreme Court of Ireland, the Supreme Court of New Zealand, the High Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of the United States, or provincial or state supreme courts.

Geologist Toni Hagen, who worked in Nepal for many years, explained the name as meaning a " grassy plain " or " meadow " ( pangma ) above a " comb " or a " range " ( shisha or chisa ) in the local Tibetan dialect, thereby signifying the " crest above the grassy plains ".

The Unified Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ) was previously the Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ), until it formally unified with the Communist Party of Nepal ( Unity Centre-Masal ) in January 2009, resulting in its full, current name: the Unified Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ).

The CPN ( M ) was formed following a split in the Communist Party of Nepal ( Unity Centre ), and used the name CPN ( Unity Centre ) until 1995.

Singh is a common title, middle name, or surname used in South Asia, mainly in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, used originally by the Hindu Kshatriyas ( warriors and kings ).

Banu ( in bânu ), is a Persian name for girls used in Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey, India, and Nepal.

One such theory speculates that Mala or Malla ( not the same as the family name Malla ) is derived from Sanskrit word Malla for wrestler which can be loosely translated as soldier or even associated with an ancient ruling dynasty in North India and Nepal ( See Malla-yuddha to know more ).

The name comes from Sanskrit for the Goddess ( Gauri ) and her Consort ( Shankar ), denoting the sacred regard to which is afforded it by the peoples of Tibet and Nepal.

The ancestor of Magadhi, from which its name derives, Magadhi Prakrit, was spoken in the eastern Indian subcontinent, in a region spanning what is now eastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal.

`` Oh, it's that myth, about Orpheus and What is her name??

She said, `` My name is Songau and these girls are Ponkob and Piwen.

`` What is your name, boy??

`` My name is Dandy Brandon, missy.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.

Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.

Within this frame of reference policies appropriate to claims advanced in the name of the Jews depend upon which Jewish identity is involved, as well as upon the nature of the claim, the characteristics of the claimant, the justifications proposed, and the predispositions of the community decision makers who are called upon to act.

When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.

`` What is your name ''??

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

Milton's name being fourth is neither too high nor too low to be assigned to the arbitrary action of vice-chancellor, proctor, master, or other mighty hand.

He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

Much more important is to grasp the feelings of the narrator ( whose full name is never given ) as he becomes aware of the disorganized and bewildered mass of French prisoners clustered together in a temporary prison camp in and around the cathedral of Chartres.

But it is tradition rather than the record which balks at the expunging of the Tammany name.

After the Griffin-Byrd political troup has completed the circuit in November in the name of a Pre-Legislative Forum, this is going to be the most politically oriented Legislature in history.

The big question is whether, in the name of a restored Chinese-Soviet solidarity, the Chinese will choose to persuade the Albanians to present their humble apologies to Khrushchev -- or get rid of Enver Hoxa.

It is the same ole same, tell me its name.

And the name Rayburn is one of the most dominant in the history of American politics for the last half century.

You name it, our industry is producing it, and it probably is made in different models.

Granted that the Tammany name and the Tammany tiger often were regarded as badges of political shame, the sachems of the Hall also have a few good marks to their credit.

It was also turned into the female form Ἀχιλλεία ( Achilleía ) attested in Attica in the 4th century BC ( IG II² 1617 ) and, in the form Achillia, on a stele in Halicarnassus as the name of a female gladiator fighting an " Amazon ".

Hesychius connects the name Apollo with the Doric απέλλα ( apella ), which means " assembly ", so that Apollo would be the god of political life, and he also gives the explanation σηκός ( sekos ), " fold ", in which case Apollo would be the god of flocks and herds.

In music an " answer " ( also known as countersubject ) is the technical name in counterpoint for the repetition or modification by one part or instrument of a theme proposed by another.

A Modest Proposal is the name of The University of Texas at Dallas ' Alternative Student Newspaper, the monthly opinion paper of the University ; it was also the name of a regular column in SWIFT Magazine of Harvard University, a satire publication that also takes its name from Jonathan Swift.

The Canadian Aboriginal syllabics are also an abugida rather than a syllabary as their name would imply, since each glyph stands for a consonant which is modified by rotation to represent the following vowel.

His name also survives in modern-day companies such as Dynamit Nobel and Akzo Nobel, which are descendants of the companies Nobel himself established.

In order to help reestablish his name and improve the image of his business from the earlier controversies associated with the dangerous explosives, Nobel had also considered naming the highly powerful substance " Nobel's Safety Powder ", but settled with Dynamite instead, referring to the Greek word for ' power '.

Ataxia is also the name of a disease in the Elder Scrolls console and PC games.

" Almond " is also the name of the edible and widely cultivated seed of this tree.

It has also been ascribed to Isaac Newton, in the form of a practical method of physical discovery ( which he did not name or formally describe ).

Minerva is also the first name of Professor McGonagall, Harry Potter's Head of House, and a very wise witch of Hogwarts, always concerned with the safety of her students.

In practice, some alloys are used so predominantly with respect to their base metals that the name of the primary constituent is also used as the name of the alloy.

" This term apparently also inspired the name of the alternate history book list, uchronia. net.

The second group also avoided invoking the name of Arius, but in large part followed Arius ' teachings and, in another attempted compromise wording, described the Son as being like ( homoios ) the Father.

It receives its name from its soil ( weathered from the weak underlying limestone ), which is black in colour, almost destitute of sand and loam, and rich in limestone and marl formations, especially adapted to the production of cotton ; hence the region is also called the Cotton Belt.

Ambrose also wrote a treatise by the name of " The Goodness of Death ".