Aramaic spread across Asia, reaching as far as India and becoming Brahmi, the ancestral abugida to most modern Indian and Southeast Asian scripts.

The Durrani Empire encompassed present-day Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, eastern Turkmenistan ( around the Panjdeh oasis ), the Kashmir region, the modern state of Pakistan and northwestern India.

The Church of South India was the first modern Episcopal uniting church, consisting as it did, from its foundation in 1947, at the time of Indian independence, of Anglicans, Methodists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians and Reformed Christians.

The original area covered by the lava flows is estimated to have been as large as 1. 5 million km², approximately half the size of modern India.

Particularly well known species include the frog Oxyglossus pusillus ( Owen ) of the Eocene of India and the toothed frog Indobatrachus, an early lineage of modern frogs, which is now placed in the Australian family Myobatrachidae.

The arrest and ill-treatment of the envoy of Raja Raja Chola by the king of Kulasekhara dynasty ( Second Cheras ), which is now part of modern India, led to a naval war called Kandalur War in AD 994.

In Persia, from the time of Darius the Great, Persian rulers used the title " King of Kings " ( Shahanshah in modern Iranian ) since they had dominion over peoples from India to Greece.

He was the last Viceroy of India ( 1947 ) and the first Governor-General of the independent Union of India ( 1947 – 48 ), from which the modern Republic of India emerged in 1950.

However, according to the Kama Sutra, fellatio is above all a characteristic of eunuchs ( or, according to other translations, of effeminate homosexuals or transwomen similar to the modern Hijra of India ), who use their mouths as a substitute for female genitalia.

In 2006 there was one operational set of traffic lights but in July 2007, a modern system was installed by Indian firm CMS Traffic Systems Limited, through a US $ 2. 1 million line of credit to the government from India ’ s EXIM Bank, providing signals for both vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

Hyder Ali and his son Tipu Sultan were the first to introduce modern Cannons and Muskets, their army was also the first in India to have official uniforms.

Modern day Afghanistan was conquered by the Maurya Empire, which was led by Chandragupta Maurya from Magadha ( modern day Bihar in India ).

In 1526, Babur, a Timurid descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan from Fergana Valley ( modern day Uzbekistan ), swept across the Khyber Pass and established the Mughal Empire, covering modern day Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.

Also, this period saw one of the largest mass migrations ever recorded in modern history, with a total of 12 million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims moving between the newly created nations of India and Pakistan ( which gained independence on 15 and 14 August 1947 respectively ).

It was Atlanteans who piloted the flying machines known in ancient India as vimanas and in the modern world as flying saucers.

The collision with the Eurasian Plate along the modern border between India and Nepal formed the orogenic belt that created the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas.

Western scholars have mostly praised Nehru for the integration of the states into a modern republic but the act was not accepted universally in India.

Nehru observed that these attitudes and religious taboos were preventing India from going forward and adapting to modern conditions: “ No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded .” Therefore, he concurred, that religions and all that went with them must be severely limited before they ruined the country and its people.

The first university in modern India was setup by the British in Calcutta in 1861 as a means of spreading western philosophical thought among the elite in India and to create in the words of Lord Macaulcay, “ a class of Indians who would be Indian in blood and colour but western in thought and ideas .” This initiative was furthered by the passing of the Universities Act of 1904.

Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India Marathi has some of the oldest literature of all modern Indo-European, Indic languages, dating from about 1000 AD.

The Gorkhali claimed descent from the Hindu Rajputs and Brahmins of Northern India, who entered modern Nepal from the west.

Without a poetic tradition in modern Hindi, poets often modeled their forms on Braj, and later on Sanskrit, Urdu, Bengali and English forms, often ill-suited to Hindi.

In addition to Hindi-Urdu, sometimes called Hindustani, which is based on a Persianized register of the Khariboli dialect and has two modern standard forms, Standard Hindi and Standard Urdu, there are historical literary standards such as Braj Bhasha ( closely related ) and Awadhi ( not so close ), as well as more recently established standard languages based on what were once considered Hindi dialects, Maithili and Dogri.

The earlier date, first proposed in modern times by John Robinson in a closely argued chapter of " Redating the New Testament " ( 1976 ), relies on the book's internal evidence, given that no external testimony exists earlier than that of Irenaeus, noted above, and the earliest extant manuscript evidence of Revelation ( P98 ) is likewise dated no earlier than the late 2nd century.

A non-Japanese video game featuring a dream-eating tapir also exists., and in the Manga of Masashi Kishimoto Naruto, the late character Danzo Shimura is capable of summoning a giant Baku to aid him in battle ( unlike many modern representations, the Baku that appears in Naruto is very close to the original japanesse description of a Baku ).

Many modern scholars of liberalism argue that no particularly meaningful distinction between classical and modern liberalism exists.

A hosts file still exists on most modern operating systems by default and generally contains a mapping of " localhost " to the IP address 127. 0. 0. 1.

Certain scholars and political leaders feel that these modern developments endanger nation states by taking power away from state governments and ceding it to international bodies such as the U. N. and the World Bank, argue that international law has evolved to a point where it exists separately from the mere consent of states, and discern a legislative and judicial process to international law that parallels such processes within domestic law.

Although this depiction still exists in the Far East, Guanyin is more often depicted as a woman in modern times.

The word " mete " also exists in Old Frisian ( and to a lesser extent, modern West Frisian ) to denote important food, differentiating it from " swiets " ( sweets ) and " dierfied " ( animal feed ).

Durkheim identified organic solidarity-based societies as modern societies where there exists a division of labour based on social differentiation that causes alienation.

A more modern usage prefers the title pro tanto obligation: an obligation that may be later overruled by another more pressing one ; it exists only pro tempore.

There exists no one definitive English translation of the decree because of the minor differences between the three original texts and because modern understanding of the ancient languages continues to develop.

* December 4, 502 BC — Solar eclipse darkens Egypt ( computed by modern astronomers ; no clear historical record of observation exists )

There exists a diverse range of styles in fashion, varying by geography, exposure to modern media, economic conditions, and ranging from expensive haute couture to traditional garb, to thrift store grunge.

The history of the Nights is extremely complex and modern scholars have made many attempts to untangle the story of how the collection as it currently exists came about.

Other modern historians, by contrast, are divided over the battle's importance, and considerable disagreement exists as to whether the victory was responsible — as Gibbon and his generation of historians claimed, and which is echoed by many modern historians — for saving Christianity and halting the conquest of Europe by Islam.

The Yilou Canal was opened in 738 AD and still exists, though not as part of the modern grand canal route.

The term " saka " ( سکه ) exists in modern Pashto, and means " related by blood " ( e. g. saka wror means " blood brother ").

Dry area communities further inland in modern times have access to frozen seafood as well as other fresh food products as food has been shipped in refrigerated trucks from the cities and can be stored where infrastructure exists to do so.

Though the tree is rare east of the Mississippi River in modern times, it exists in pockets of the blight-free West, where the habitat was agreeable for planting: settlers brought seeds for American chestnut with them in the 19th century, and the species still exists in part because of this.

Interestingly, modern quantum theory agrees that space is not the void, there is the concept of quantum foam which still exists in the absence of all else, although Albert Einstein's general relativity no longer agrees with Newton's concept of an absolute space.

Theorists such as Noam Chomsky have argued that systemic bias exists in the modern media.

Domesticated horses with leopard spotting patterns exists from Ancient Greece through the Early modern period ; the Nez Perce people of what today is the United States Pacific Northwest developed the original American breed.

In modern notation, a ratio exists between quantities p and q if there exist integers m and n so that mp > q and nq > m.