In the ancient Indian work the Kama Sutra, light scratching of the breasts with nails and biting with teeth are considered erotic.

Indian mail was typically light in construction and was often used with plate protection.

By the end of 1940 all of the Indian cavalry had been mechanised, receiving light tanks, armoured cars or 15cwt trucks.

Indian newspapers repeated Nehru's own words of the time of Gandhi's assassination: " The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere.

These practical developments were followed by the development of theories of light and vision by ancient Greek and Indian philosophers, and the development of geometrical optics in the Greco-Roman world.

The Indian philosopher Kanada, founder of the Vaisheshika school, developed a theory of atomism and proposed that light and heat were varieties of the same substance.

Berninghaus was captivated by the local Indian culture and the landscape and light of the area, and returned to Taos nearly every subsequent summer.

A soldier of an Indian armoured regiment examines a light tank used by Indonesian nationalists and captured by British forces during the fighting in Surabaya.

He adds that the British accounts of Indian history " throw a beam of artificial light on such a spot that in our own eyes the very profile of our country is made dark ".

Loop 303 Between Indian School Rd and McDowell Rd is ongoing construction ; the traffic light has been replaced with a new one.

Stewart ( citing Hutcheon ) suggests that Midnight's Children chronologically entwines characters from both India and the West, " with post-colonial Indian history to examine both the effect of these indigenous and non-indigenous cultures on the Indian mind and in the light of Indian independence.

One report estimates that every year between 5, 000 and 7, 000 Nepalese girls are trafficked into the red light districts in Indian cities, and that many of the girls may only be 9 or 10 years old.

Hindu astrology ( also known as Indian astrology, more recently Vedic astrology, also Jyotish or Jyotisha, from Sanskrit, from " light, heavenly body ") is the traditional Hindu system of astronomy and astrology.

" During his Sunday sermon on March 27 he addressed his congregation on the subject of the " calamities " that had begun in his own household, but stated " it never brake forth to any considerable light, until diabolical means were used, by the making of a cake by my Indian man, who had his direction from this our sister, Mary Sibly ," going on to admonish all against the use of any kind of magic, even white magic, because it was essentially, " going to the Devil for help against the Devil.

* Browning ( slang ), a light skinned woman or man of African or East Indian descent.

A sense of the frontier life may be gleaned from his proposal in 1703 to use dogs " to hunt Indians as they do Bears ", the argument being that dogs would catch many an Indian who would be too light of foot for the townsmen.

" On the protohistory of the Indian languages in the light of archaeological, linguistic and religious evidence: An attempt at integration.

The Indian Army chose the Eurocopter AS 550 for a $ 550 million contract for 197 light helicopters to replace its ageing fleet of Chetaks and Cheetahs, some of which were inducted more than three decades ago.

Most Indian actors and actresses have light skin.

He used to wear an Indian feather headdress as a visual pun on Chief, and in later strips wore a hat with a flashing blue light on the top.

British commander Barry St. Leger authorized an intercept force consisting of a Hanau jäger ( light infantry ) detachment, Sir John Johnson's King's Royal Regiment of New York, Indian allies from the Six Nations and other tribes to the north and west, and Indian Department Rangers totaling at least 450 men.

Vowels ( svara ), in their conventional order, are historically grouped into " short " ( hrasva ) and " long " ( dīrgha ) classes, based on the " light " ( laghu ) and " heavy " ( guru ) syllables they create in traditional verse.

A traditional etymology of the term " guru " is based on the interplay between darkness and light.

Reender Kranenborg disagrees, stating that darkness and light have nothing to do with the word guru.

Sanskrit prosody and metrics have a deep history of taking into account moraic weight, as it were, rather than straight syllables, divided into " laghu " ( लघ ु, " light ") and " deergh " / " guru " ( द ी र ् घ / ग ु र ु, " heavy ") feet based on how many moras can be isolated in each word.

Thus, for example, the word " kartṛi ", meaning " agent " or " doer ", does not contain, contrary to intuitive English prosodic principles, simply two syllabic units, but contains rather, in order, a " deergh " / " guru "/ " heavy " foot and a " laghu " / " light " foot.

* In 1999 one of the foundation's long-term members, Verity Linn, died of exposure on a Scottish mountain while following the teachings of the self-styled guru Jasmuheen from Brisbane, Australia, that human beings can " live on light " alone.

# The 2nd and 3rd syllables cannot both be light ( laghu, "⏑") in either pāda ; i. e. one or both of the 2nd and 3rd syllables must be heavy ( guru, "–") in both pādas.

Johanna Wilhelmina Petronella Damman, known under her nickname Jomanda ( born May 5, 1948 ), is a controversial Dutch New Age guru who refers to herself as the Lady of the light.

According to Paramahansa Yogananda, Therese Neumann said during his visit: " One of the reasons I am here on earth today is to prove that man can live by God's invisible light, and not by food only.

" When Paramahansa Yogananda questions the notion that Therese Neumann had lived eating only a daily eucharistic wafer for the past 12 years, she states that she lives by God's light.

In contrast, Neusner views each rabbinic document as an individual piece of evidence that can only shed light on the more local Judaisms of such specific document's place of origin and the specific Judaism of the author.

Another author explains, " When Saint Jerome translated the Old Testament into Latin, he thought no one but Christ should glow with rays of light — so he advanced the secondary translation.

A hundred years later, scholars in Germany and England began to shed light on his life and work, including the controversial finding that he may have been the author of a Hamlet play pre-dating Shakespeare's.

The method followed by its illustrious author Sir Newton ... spread the light of mathematics on a science which up to then had remained in the darkness of conjectures and hypotheses.

The Vulcan homeworld, also named Vulcan, was mentioned in the original series, episode " The City on the Edge of Forever " ( 1967 ) to be orbiting the far left star of Orion's belt, i. e. Alnitak, and in the script-adaptation anthology Star Trek 2, author James Blish put the planet in orbit around the star 40 Eridani A, 16 light years from Earth, an identification later adopted by Roddenberry.

Several light novels based on the JoJo series have been written, each by a different author, but all including illustrations by Hirohiko Araki.

Albert Victor's posthumous reputation became so bad that in 1964 Philip Magnus called his death a " merciful act of providence ", supporting the theory that his death removed an unsuitable heir to the throne and replaced him with the reliable and sober George V. In 1972, Michael Harrison was the first modern author to re-assess Albert Victor and portray him in a more sympathetic light.

The author tells us that this Office took place at the tenth hour ( four o ' clock in the evening ); it is really the Office des lumières, i. e. of the lights ; it was celebrated in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ; all the lamps and torches of the church were lighted, making, as the author says, " an infinite light ".

It produces a clutch of three eggs ; they are a light pinkish-brown colour ( likened by one author to that of silly putty ) with splotches of darker pink-brown and lavender.

In the light of this explicit mention of a jubilee with great remissions of the penalties of sin to be obtained by full confession and purpose of amendment, it seems difficult to reject the statement of Cardinal Giacomo Stefaneschi, the contemporary and counsellor of Pope Boniface VIII, and author of a treatise on the first Jubilee, that the proclamation of the Jubilee owed its origin to the statements of certain aged pilgrims who persuaded Boniface that great indulgences had been granted to all pilgrims in Rome about a hundred years before.

Rick Cook ( born 1944 ) is a light fantasy author from the United States, best known for his Wizardry series of books.

Besides biographical sketches of Defoe, Sir John Davies, Allan Ramsay, Sir David Lyndsay, Churchyard and others, prefixed to editions of their respective works, the British government paid Chalmers 500 pounds sterling to write a hostile biography of Thomas Paine, the author of the Rights of Man, that Chalmers published under the assumed name of Francis Oldys, A. M., of the University of Pennsylvania ; and a life of Ruddiman, in which considerable light is thrown on the state of literature in Scotland during the earlier part of the last century.

On September 30, author Arianna Huffington withdrew her candidacy on the Larry King Live television program and announced that she was opposing the recall entirely in light of Arnold Schwarzenegger's surge in the polls.

However, dog breeder and author Noreen Clark has noted that his opinions are sometimes just that, and he introduces some contradictory assertions in his later writings, as well as some assumptions that are illogical in the light of modern science.

But, as the author shows, the whole was an artifice of the old woman, for the piece of iron suspended in the goblet was extremely light and when the old woman wished it to strike against the glass, she held in one of her hands a ring set with a large piece of magnetic stone, the virtue of which drew the iron towards the glass.

In 1906, he became a full-time writer, as a journalist and author of light verse, popular fiction and history, including A Group of Scottish Women ( 1908 ).

In early 1965, Mao sent his wife Jiang Qing to Shanghai to light the first spark of what would become the Cultural Revolution, the campaign against Wu Han, the Vice Mayor of Beijing and the author of the 1961 play Hai Rui Dismissed from Office.

Wis 7: 26 says that “ she is a reflection of eternal light, a spotless mirror of the working of God, and an image of his goodness .” The author of Hebrews says of Christ: “ He reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature, upholding the universe by his word of power .”

Actress and author Shirley MacLaine called it a " window of light ," allowing access to higher realms of awareness.

A possible explanation is that the author thinks a heavy book will make a bigger splash than two light ones " ( page 493 ).

We shall not go far wrong if we include in the list Hyacinthe Morel ( 1756 – 1829 ), of Avignon, whose collection of poems, Lou Saboulet, has been republished by Frédéric Mistral ; Louis Aubanel ( 178 ~- 1842 ), of Nîmes, the successful translator of Anacreon's Odes ; Auguste Tandon, the troubadour of Montpellier, who wrote Fables, contes et autres pièces en vers ( 1800 ); Fabre d ' Olivet, the versatile littérateur who in 1803 published Le Troubadour: Poésies occitaniques, which, in order to secure their success, he gave out as the work of some medieval poet Diou-loufet ( 1771 – 1840 ), who wrote a didactic poem, in the manner of Virgil, relating to silkworm-breeding ( Leis magnans ); Jacques Azais ( 1778 – 1856 ), author of satires, fables, & c .; d ' Astros ( 1780 – 1863 ), a writer of fables in La Fontaine's manner ; Castil-Blaze, who found time, amidst his musical pursuits, to compose Provençal poems, intended to be set to music ; the Marquis de Fare-Alais ( 1791 – 1846 ), author of some light satirical tales ( Las Castagnados ).

" Hyperspace also provides the means by which the literally astronomical distances between stars can be traversed in such a way that would enable an author to have a plot that deals with multiple star systems in a reasonable amount of time, something generally impossible if speeds less than the speed of light are observed.