Chandabai, the Glossary
Pandita Brahmacharini Chandabai (1880–1977) was a Jain scholar and a pioneer of women's education in India.[1]
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15 relations: Arrah, Brahmacharya, Dharmaśāstra, Digambar Jain Mahasabha, Jainism, Jainism in Uttar Pradesh, Nyaya, Panch Kalyanaka Pratishtha Mahotsava, Pandit, Panipat, Prakrit, Sanskrit, Uttar Pradesh, Vrindavan, Zamindar.
- 19th-century Indian women writers
- Educators from Uttar Pradesh
- Scholars of Jainism
Arrah
Arrah (also transliterated as Ara) is a city and a municipal corporation in Bhojpur district (formerly known as Shahabad district) in the Indian state of Bihar. It is the headquarters of Bhojpur district, located near the confluence of the Ganges and Sone rivers, some from Danapur and from Patna.
Brahmacharya
Brahmacharya (Devanagari: ब्रह्मचर्य) is a concept within Indian religions that literally means "conduct consistent with Brahma" or "on the path of Brahma".
See Chandabai and Brahmacharya
Dharmaśāstra
Dharmaśāstra (धर्मशास्त्र) are Sanskrit Puranic Smriti texts on law and conduct, and refer to treatises (śāstras) on Dharma.
See Chandabai and Dharmaśāstra
Digambar Jain Mahasabha
Digambar Jain Mahasabha or Shri Bharatvarshiya Digamber Jain Mahasabha is the oldest organisation of lay 20 panthi sarabati Jains in India.
See Chandabai and Digambar Jain Mahasabha
Jainism
Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.
Jainism in Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh, a state in north India has a long association with Jainism.
See Chandabai and Jainism in Uttar Pradesh
Nyaya
Nyāya (Sanskrit:न्यायः, IAST:'nyāyaḥ'), literally meaning "justice", "rules", "method" or "judgment", is one of the six orthodox (Āstika) schools of Hindu philosophy.
Panch Kalyanaka Pratishtha Mahotsava
Panch Kalyanaka Pratishtha Mahotsava is a traditional Jain ceremony that consecrates one or more Jain Tirthankara icons with celebration of Panch Kalyanaka (five auspicious events).
See Chandabai and Panch Kalyanaka Pratishtha Mahotsava
Pandit
A Pandit (paṇḍita; पंडित; also spelled Pundit, pronounced; abbreviated Pt.) is an individual with specialised knowledge or a teacher of any field of knowledge whether it is shashtra (Holy Books) or shastra (Weapons) in Hinduism, particularly the Vedic scriptures, dharma, or Hindu philosophy; in colonial-era literature, the term generally refers to lawyers specialized in Hindu law.
Panipat
Panipat is a industrial planned city, located in Haryana, India.
Prakrit
Prakrit is a group of vernacular Middle Indo-Aryan languages that were used in the Indian subcontinent from around the 3rd century BCE to the 8th century CE.
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh ('North Province') is a state in northern India.
See Chandabai and Uttar Pradesh
Vrindavan
Vrindavan, also spelt Vrindaban and Brindaban, is a historical city in the Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Zamindar
A zamindar in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semi-autonomous feudal ruler of a zamindari (feudal estate).
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19th-century Indian women writers
- Amelia Horne
- Annie Besant
- Banaja Devi
- Bandaru Acchamamba
- Bangalore Nagarathnamma
- Begum Rokeya
- Binodini Dasi
- Chandabai
- Cornelia Sorabji
- Deepakba Desai
- Gangabai Yagnik
- Gauri Ma
- Girijabai Kelkar
- Girindramohini Dasi
- Kamini Roy
- Kaminisundari Devi
- Kotikalapudi Seethamma
- Krishna Kamini Dasi
- Krishnabhabini Das
- Krupabai Satthianadhan
- Kutty Kunju Thankachi
- Lakshmibai Tilak
- Mah Laqa Bai
- Margaret Cousins
- Moovalur Ramamirtham
- Nabinkali Devi
- Nawab Faizunnesa
- Norah Richards
- Padmini Sathianadhan Sengupta
- Piro Preman
- Priyamvada Devi
- Rachel Beer
- Ramabai Ranade
- Rassundari Devi
- Reba Ray
- Reba Roy
- Sarasibala Basu
- Sarojini Naidu
- Savitribai Phule
- Shah Jahan Begum of Bhopal
- Sharda Mehta
- Sister Nivedita
- Suchitra Devi
- Sulakshana Devi
- Tarabai Shinde
- Tarigonda Vengamamba
- Toru Dutt
Educators from Uttar Pradesh
- Abidullah Ghazi
- Aruna Kori
- Azarmi Dukht Safavi
- Bimla Poddar
- Birju Maharaj
- Bishambhar Nath Pande
- Chandabai
- Chittaranjan Mitra
- Deepali Pant Joshi
- Gulbadan Begum
- Hamida Habibullah
- Kamala Bose
- Lilavati Singh
- Mahadevi Varma
- Mona Chandravati Gupta
- Naheed Abidi
- Parveen Talha
- Pupul Jayakar
- Radhika Herzberger
- Ragini Trivedi
- Rajat Moona
- Rani Dhavan Shankardass
- Rashmi Tiwari
- Rehana Khatoon
- Romila Thapar
- Roohi Zuberi
- Runa Banerjee
- Ruqaiya Hasan
- Saeeda Faiz
- Saroj Chooramani Gopal
- Satish Bahadur
- Sehba Hussain
- Uday Pratap Singh
- V. Mohini Giri
- Vinod Shankar Avasthi
- Zahida Zaidi
- Zoya Hasan
Scholars of Jainism
- Albrecht Weber
- Champat Rai Jain
- Chandabai
- Chandrashekhar Vijay
- Colette Caillat
- Dalsukh Dahyabhai Malvania
- Hampanā
- Hermann Jacobi
- Jambuvijaya
- Jinendra Varni
- Johannes Klatt
- John E. Cort
- Kanji Swami
- Madhusudan Dhaky
- Mary Whitney Kelting
- Nalini Balbir
- Nathuram Premi
- Niraj Jain
- Padmanabh Jaini
- Pandit Todarmal
- Pannalal Jain
- Paul Dundas
- Phoolchandra Shastri
- Piotr Balcerowicz
- Ramjee Singh
- Ratnasundarsuri
- Robert J. Zydenbos
- Shrimad Rajchandra
- Sukhlal Sanghvi
- Swami Satyabhakta
- T. K. Tukol
- Umakant Premanand Shah
- Vallabhsuri
- Vilas Adinath Sangave
- Virchand Gandhi