Sunday, December 29, 2024

Hinduism: Info: D

 001) Yadava ... 

A) The Yadava (lit. 'descended from Yadu'[1][2]) were an ancient Indian people who believed to be descended from Yadu, a legendary king of Chandravamsha lineage. 

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002) Ahir

A) Ahir is believed to be a derivation of the Sanskrit word, "abhira", and the present term in the Bengali and Marathi languages is abhir. 

B) Epigraphical and historical evidence exists for equating the Ahirs with the ancient Yadava tribe.[12][13][14] 

C) According to modern historian Jeffrey Greenhunt on military history, "The Martial Race theory had an elegant symmetry. Indians who were intelligent and educated were defined as cowards, while those defined as brave were uneducated and backward". 

D) Ahirs in India are known by numerous other names, including Gauli[46] and Ghosi or Gop in North India.[47] In Gujarat and South India as Ayar, Golla and Konar.[48] Some in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh are known as Dauwa.[49] The Ahirs have more than 20 sub-castes 


003) Bibek Debroy

A) Bibek Debroy (25 January 1955 – 1 November 2024) was an Indian economist, who served as the chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India. 

B)  Debroy has translated the unabridged version of the Mahabharata into English, in a series of 10 volumes. He has also translated the Bhagavad Gita, the Harivamsa, the Vedas and Valmiki's Ramayana (in three volumes). He has translated the Bhagavata Purana (in three volumes), the Markandeya Purana (one volume), the Brahma Purana (two volumes), the Vishnu Purana (one volume), the Shiva Purana (three volumes) and the Brahmanda Purana (two volumes). Along with Manmatha Nath Dutt, he is only the second person to have translated both the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, in unabridged form, into English. For his translations, he has been conferred with Sir Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar Memorial Award in July 2023 by the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute.[28]



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