According to the modern academic view, Vishnu, who according to Bala Kanda was incarnated as Rama, first came into prominence with the epics themselves and further during the ' Puranic ' period of the later 1st millennium CE.

According to one interpretation of Puranic Hinduism, the world is believed to have been created 158. 7 trillion years ago ( 50 " years of Brahma ").

According to Puranic stories, Vishwamitra was the only brahmarishi who rose to the position out of pure tapas.

According to Puranic traditions, this country ( Janapada ) was founded by Gandhāra, son of Aruddha, a descendant of Yayāti.

According to Puranic traditions, this Janapada was founded by Gandhara, son of Aruddha, a descendant of Yayati.

According to Puranic cosmography, the entire Cosmos is divided into seven concentric island continents ( sapta-dvipa vasumati ) separated by the seven encircling oceans, each double the size of the preceding one ( going out from within ).

According to Puranic accounts, the janapadas of Asmaka, Mulaka, Vaidarbha, Kalinga, Andhra, Pundra, Pulinda, Dandaka, Kuntala, Kerala, Pandya, Chola and others lay in the Dakshinapatha.

According to Puranic scriptures, Brahma ’ s son Kashyapa had four wives.

According to urban geography professor Stephen R. Higley, Ph. D., and his website, The Higley 1000, the Bullitt Park section is ranked number 79 of the 100 highest-income neighborhoods in America, with a mean household income of $ 322, 700.

According to their understanding of the geography, the region was divided between two " Provinces " Taguzgalpa and Tologalpa.

According to Leo, he completed his manuscript on African geography in the same year.

According to Walter Benjamin, Kant's slim early book on the earthquake " probably represents the beginnings of scientific geography in Germany.

According to Sir William Jones, " Meros is said by the Greeks to have been a mountain in India, on which their Dionysos was born, and that Meru, though it generally means the north pole in Indian geography, is also a mountain near the city of Naishada or Nysa, called by the Greek geographers Dionysopolis, and universally celebrated in the Sanskrit poems ".

According to another theory the name may have come from a compound word, namely Jungle-Dagh, from jungle which the French entrepreneurs named due to uneven and wooded geography of the land, and dağ meaning " a mountain " in Turkish.

According to a report, from a man who must have been an Afghan with the local government, Jamal ad-Din Afghani was: "… well versed in geography and history, speaks Arabic and Turkish fluently, talks Persian like an Irani.

According to the Mesoamerican limited geography model, the Waters of Mormon include Lago de Atitlán in the highlands of Guatemala.

According to Ptolemy's Treatise on geography, written in the 2nd Century A. D., the ancient land of Gangaridi was stretched between the rivers Bhagirathi-Hoogly ( lower Ganges ) and Padma-Meghna.

According to Alberta Venture magazine's list of the 50 largest employers in the province, the largest employers are:

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies in 2008, Canada had 69 companies in the list, ranking 5th next to France.

According to The Hollywood Reporter < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s annual Star Salary Top 10, she was tied for eighth place on the top ten list of actresses ' salaries, commanding 10 to 12 million dollars per movie for 2006.

According to a number of sources, it was Emmylou who forced the band to practice and work up an actual set list.

According to the Swedish Public Radio broadcaster SR, the UN did not explain why it had elected to remove Al-Barakat from its terror list.

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies in 2008, Mexico had 16 companies in the list.

According to Carla Ricci, “ The place she Magdalene occupied in the list cannot be considered fortuitous ,” because over and over Mary Magdalene ’ s name is placed at the head of specifically named women, indicating her importance.

In Luke, the author writes that Jesus “ took Peter, John and James .” According to Ricci, because Peter occupies the first position in the list, that place can be considered the position of highest importance.

According to a recent report by the European Commission, Slovakia ( along with some other Central and Eastern European economies ) is low down on the list of EU states in the area of innovation ( Slovakia ranks 22nd ).

According to this model, recency is a result of the final items ’ processing context being similar to the processing context of the other items and the distinctive position of the final items versus items in the middle of the list.

According to the ( OECD ) Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, in October 2011 when its Development Assistance Committee ( DAC ) released its list, Trinidad and Tobago were no longer on that list for the first time in history.

According to the Tax Foundation, the following is a list of Tax Freedom Days in the U. S. since 1900:

According to the 2001 Census of India, Telugu is the language with the third largest number of native speakers in India ( 74 million ), thirteenth in the Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages worldwide, and most spoken Dravidian language.

According to Technorati, NewScientist. com is the 14th in the list of most-linked-to news organisations and the only science and technology specialist in the top 100.

According to a New Jersey Police spokesperson, Assata Shakur was on her way to a " new hideout in Philadelphia " and " heading ultimately for Washington " and a book in the vehicle contained a list of potential BLA targets.

According to Seafood Watch, Atlantic flounder and sole are currently on the list of seafood that sustainability-minded consumers should avoid.

According to the auto editors of Consumer Guide it had " an unusually long option list for the era " so owners could have luxury and conveniences typically found in more expensive cars, and these options " came with a much higher profit margin " for the automaker.

According to former CIA Director Richard M. Helms: " The code names for most Agency operations are picked in sequence from a sterile list, with care taken not to use any word that might give a clue to the activity it covers.

According to Operabase, he has more operas played worldwide than any other composer born in the twentieth century, and only Puccini and Richard Strauss come ahead of him if the list is extended to all operas composed after 1900.

According to The Economist, Iran was ranked 39th in a list of industrialized nations, producing $ 23 billion of industrial products in 2008.

According to political analysts, the list of ministers Karzai presented to the Parliament was " not encouraging ", but it reflected realpolitik.

According to the text, once back at Ziklag, David sent portions of the spoil to the various community leaders within Judah ; the text gives a list of the locations of the recipients, but they are all just within the Negev.

According to Benjamin Thorpe " Grimm says the word embla, emla, signifies a busy woman, from amr, ambr, aml, ambl, assiduous labour ; the same relation as Meshia and Meshiane, the ancient Persian names of the first man and woman, who were also formed from trees.

According to ancient sources, ( Plutarch Theseus, Pausanias ), Amazon tombs could be found frequently throughout what was once known as the ancient Greek world.

According to his contemporary Jerome, Augustine " established anew the ancient Faith.

According to the ancient authors, the Boii arrived in northern Italy by crossing the Alps.

According to ancient Chinese, Indian and Javanese manuscripts, western coastal cities of Borneo had become trading ports, part of their trade routes, since the first millennium.

According to Needham, though there is no way of answering the question of whether the crossbow first arose among the cultures neighboring ancient China before the rise of Chinese culture in their midst, or whether it spread outwards from China to all the environing peoples, the former seems the more probable hypothesis given linguistic evidence, which posits that the Chinese word for ' crossbow ' came from an Austroasiatic language.

According to some ancient Greek collections, canons 29 and 30 are attributed to the council: canon 29, which states that an unworthy bishop cannot be demoted but can be removed, is an extract from the minutes of the 19th session ; canon 30, which grants the Egyptians time to consider their rejection of Leo's Tome, is an extract from the minutes of the fourth session.

According to the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible translation produced by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the story of the Nephilim in Genesis 6: 1-4 " is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology ", and the " sons of God " mentioned in that passage are " celestial beings of mythology ".

According to Howard Schwartz, " the myth of the fall of Lucifer " existed in fragmentary form in Isaiah 14: 12 and other ancient Jewish literature ; Schwartz claims that the myth originated from " the ancient Canaanite myth of Athtar, who attempted to rule the throne of Ba ' al, but was forced to descend and rule the underworld instead ".

According to the New American Bible, the image in Revelation 12: 1-6 of a pregnant woman in the sky, threatened by a dragon, " corresponds to a widespread myth throughout the ancient world that a goddess pregnant with a savior was pursued by a horrible monster ; by miraculous intervention, she bore a son who then killed the monster ".

According to Mircea Eliade, one pervasive mythical theme associates heroes with the slaying of dragons, a theme which Eliade traces back to " the very ancient cosmogonico-heroic myth " of a battle between a divine hero and a dragon.

According to Gyula Moravcsik, this title was a simple translation of Béla's Hungarian title úr, but other historians believe it comes from the ancient Greek despotes ( literally, the master ).

According to Færeyinga Saga there was an ancient institution on the headland Tinganes in Tórshavn on the island of Streymoy.

According to Rao, " St. Francis Xavier made it a point not only to convert the people but also destroy the idols and ancient places of worship.

According to Popular Mechanics, " The common sponge was used in ancient Greece as a gas mask ..." An early type of rudimentary gas mask was invented in the 9th century by the Banu Musa brothers in Baghdad, Iraq.

According to a very different account by an ancient grammarian, Herodotus refused to begin reading his work at the festival of Olympia until some clouds offered him a bit of shade, by which time however the assembly had dispersed-thus the proverbial expression " Herodotus and his shade " to describe any man who misses his opportunity through delay.

According to some Christians and Karaites, the tradition in ancient Israel was that 1 Nisan would not start until the barley is ripe, being the test for the onset of spring.

According to Herodotus, Libya began where ancient Egypt ended, and extended to Cape Spartel, south of Tangier on the Atlantic coast.

According to a myth thought to be of ancient origins, Iolaus was Heracles ' charioteer and squire.

According to Jack Donnelly, in the ancient world, " traditional societies typically have had elaborate systems of duties ... conceptions of justice, political legitimacy, and human flourishing that sought to realize human dignity, flourishing, or well-being entirely independent of human rights.

According to South American mythology the belief of the Brazilian Indians, who live alongside the Parima River in Brazil, claim that their forefathers emerged in ancient times from an underground land, and that many of their ancestors still remained inside the earth.

According to the ancient astronaut writer Peter Kolosimo a robot was seen entering a subterranean tunnel below a monastery in Mongolia, he also claimed a light was seen from underground in Azerbaijan.

According to the Bauer-Danker Lexicon, the noun ίδιωτής in ancient Greek meant " civilian " ( ref Josephus Bell 2 178 ), " private citizen " ( ref sb 3924 9 25 ), " private soldier as opposed to officer ," ( Polybius 1. 69 ), " relatively unskilled, not clever ," ( Herodotus 2, 81 and 7 199 ).