Category: Ancient Indian people

: The Origin and Nature of Ancient Indian Buddhism, Delhi 1989

* Pargiter, Frederick Eden, Dr., Chronology based on: Ancient Indian Historical Tradition, Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1924, Reprint 1997

Ancient Indian text on laws, such as Manusmṛti suggest a caste system was part of Indian society.

The Ancient Indian Kama Sutra, dating from the first century AD, describes oral sex, discussing fellatio in great detail and only briefly mentioning cunnilingus.

The Gupta Empire ( Sanskrit: ग ु प ् त र ा जव ं श, Gupta Rājavanśha ) was an Ancient Indian empire which existed approximately from 320 to 550 CE and covered much of the Indian Subcontinent.

The Atharvaveda, a sacred text of Hinduism dating from the Early Iron Age, is the first Indian text dealing with medicine, like the medicine of the Ancient Near East based on concepts of the exorcism of demons and magic.

Indian Ancient Sciences: Archaeology Based, ISBN-978-3-8383-9027-7, Lap Lambert-Germany.

Ancient Greek and Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies.

In Ancient Indian philosophy, materialism developed around 600 BC with the works of Ajita Kesakambali, Payasi, Kanada, and the proponents of the Cārvāka school of philosophy.

* Avari, Burjor, India: The Ancient Past: A history of the Indian sub-continent from c. 7000 BC to AD 1200, Routledge.

Ancient Indian medicine, Ayurveda has recommended its use in food for its medicinal value, much of which is now being researched in the modern day.

Ancient Indian ( Bharata ) cities and places.

Ancient Indian texts also refer to the use of spoons.

Category: Ancient Indian rivers

The earliest explicit depictions of a triangle of binomial coefficients occur in the 10th century in commentaries on the Chandas Shastra, an Ancient Indian book on Sanskrit prosody written by Pingala in or before the 2nd century BC.

Rawlinson, in his book: Ancient and Medieval History of India claims the first Arab Muslims settled on the Indian coast in the last part of the 7th century.

The word derives from the Sanskrit ( Ancient Indian ) kshatriya via Old Persian: the full title of the Achaemenid rulers ( First Persian Empire ) was Kshatriya Kshatriyanamah, " King of Kings ".

* " Ancient Indian Wisdom " by Dr. Ramendra published in International Humanist News

Category: Ancient Indian materialist philosophers

McCrindle's book Ancient India as Described in Classical Literature, where an Indian gem is said by the Roman historian to have a " surface is even redder than the shells of the sea-locust.

Category: Ancient Indian cities

The Ancient Indian work Kama Sutra mentions different types of embracing, kissing, and marking with nails and teeth.

* Mulchandani, S. ( 2006 ) Erotic Literature of Ancient India: Kama Sutra, Koka Shastra, Gita Govindam, Ananga Ranga ISBN 81-7436-384-X

Lagopus is derived from Ancient Greek lago ( λαγως ), meaning " hare ", + pous ( πους ), " foot " and refers to the hair on its feet.

The term " pharaonic circumcision " ( Type III ) stems from its practice in Ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs, and " fibula " ( in " infibulation ") refers to the Roman practice of piercing the outer labia with a fibula, or brooch.

Spanish and Ancient Greek, for example, have a perfect ( not the same as the perfective ), which refers to a state resulting from a previous action ( also described as a previous action with relevance to a particular time, or a previous action viewed from the perspective of a later time ).

The name refers to the heavy wings of the insects, and is derived from the Ancient Greek ὑμήν ( hymen ): membrane and πτερόν ( pteron ): wing.

It is set in an Earthlike world ( perhaps in an alternate reality ), deals with metaphysics, and refers heavily to Ancient Greek philosophy, while at the same time being a complex commentary on the insubstantiality of today's contemporary society.

Psychosis ( from the Ancient Greek ψυχή " psyche ", for mind / soul, and-ωσις "- osis ", for abnormal condition or derangement ) refers to an abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a " loss of contact with reality ".

The Holy Ancient One refers to God Himself, Who is imperceivable.

Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in Ancient Greek from the oldest surviving written works in the Greek language until approximately the fifth century AD and the rise of the Byzantine Empire.

The term " rhubarb " is a combination of the Ancient Greek rha and barbarum ; rha refers both to the plant and to the River Volga.

An apocalypse ( Ancient Greek: apocálypsis, from and meaning ' un-covering '), translated literally from Greek refers to a revelation of something hidden, although this sense did not enter English until the 14th century.

In the Bahá ’ í Faith, ' the Ancient of Days ' is one of the titles with which Bahá ’ u ’ lláh refers to Himself.

In Greek mythology, Glauce ( Ancient Greek: Γλαυκή " blue-gray "), Latin Glauca, refers to different people:

In Ancient Egypt the name Mehen meaning ' coiled one ' refers to a mythological snake-god and to a game.

* Jack from David Ives ' 1990 play Ancient History refers to himself and his girlfriend Ruth as Nick and Nora.

The Chinese phrase Four Great Ancient Capitals of China () traditionally refers to Beijing ( the current capital of the People's Republic ), Nanjing, Luoyang, and Chang ' an ( Xi ' an ).

Ancient Greek ethics is eudaimonist because it links virtue and eudaimonia, where eudaimonia refers to an individual ’ s ( objective ) well being.

The genus name Aechmophorus comes from the Ancient Greek words " aichme ", meaning spear, and " phoros ", meaning someone who bears things around ; it refers to the bird's long, daggerlike beak.

The species name Botrytis cinerea is derived from the Latin for " grapes like ashes "; although poetic, the " grapes " (" botrytis " from Ancient Greek botrys ( βότρυς ) meaning " grapes " plus the Neolatin suffix-itis for disease ) refers to the bunching of the fungal spores on their conidiophores, and " ashes " just refers to the greyish colour of the spores en masse.

The genus name, Geronticus, is derived from the Ancient Greek, meaning old man and refers to the bald head of the aged.

The genus name Aythya is derived from the Ancient Greek aithuia which refers to a seabird mentioned by Aristotle and others and is thought to refer to a duck, auklet or other seabird.

* Sekem is an Anthroposophical and Islamic foundation and farming village centered on principles for Biodynamic agriculture in Egypt ; this name refers to Shechem, and to the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph pronounced ' Sekem ' meaning ' vitality ' or ' life '.

The Late Period of Ancient Egypt refers to the last flowering of native Egyptian rulers after the Third Intermediate Period from the 26th Saite Dynasty into Persian conquests and, ending with the fall of the Thirty-First ( Second Persian ) Dynasty to the conquest of Alexander the Great in 332 BCE.