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Khajuraho, the Glossary

Khajuraho is a city, near Chhatarpur in Chhatarpur district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.^[1]

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Cities in Bundelkhand

Alexander Cunningham

Major General Sir Alexander Cunningham (23 January 1814 – 28 November 1893) was a British Army engineer with the Bengal Sappers who later took an interest in the history and archaeology of India.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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The Chahamanas of Shakambhari (IAST: Cāhamāna), colloquially known as the Chauhans of Sambhar or Chauhans of Ajmer, were an Indian dynasty that ruled parts of the present-day Rajasthan and neighbouring areas in India, between the 6th and 12th centuries.

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Chandelas of Jejakabhukti

The Chandelas of Jejakabhukti was an Indian dynasty in Central India.

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Chhatarpur

Chhatarpur is a city and a municipality in Chhatarpur district in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. Khajuraho and Chhatarpur are cities in Bundelkhand.

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Chhatarpur district

Chhatarpur District is a district of Madhya Pradesh state of central India.

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Date palm

Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the date palm, is a flowering-plant species in the palm family, Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit called dates.

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Delhi

Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi (ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.

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Erotic art

Erotic art is a broad field of the visual arts that includes any artistic work intended to evoke arousal.

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Female

An organism's sex is female (symbol: ♀) if it produces the ovum (egg cell), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete (sperm cell) during sexual reproduction.

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Gupta Empire

The Gupta Empire was an ancient Indian empire on the Indian subcontinent which existed from the mid 3rd century CE to mid 6th century CE.

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Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty

The Pratihara dynasty, also called the Gurjara-Pratiharas, the Pratiharas of Kannauj and the Imperial Pratiharas, was a medieval Indian dynasty that ruled parts of Northern India from the mid-8th to the 11th century.

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Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station

Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station (station code: NZM) is a railway station in South Delhi, India.

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Hindus

Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.

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Human sex ratio

The human sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population in the context of anthropology and demography.

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Ibn Battuta

Abū Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh Al-Lawātī (24 February 13041368/1369), commonly known as Ibn Battuta, was a Maghrebi traveller, explorer and scholar.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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India Meteorological Department

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) is an agency of the Ministry of Earth Sciences of the Government of India.

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Indian Standard Time

Indian Standard Time (IST), sometimes also called India Standard Time, is the time zone observed throughout the Republic of India, with a time offset of UTC+05:30.

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Jainism

Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.

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Khajuraho Airport

Khajuraho Airport is a domestic airport that serves the cities of Khajuraho and Chhatarpur in Madhya Pradesh, India.

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Khajuraho Group of Monuments

The Khajuraho Group of Monuments are a group of Hindu and Jain temples in Chhatarpur district, Madhya Pradesh, India. Khajuraho and Khajuraho Group of Monuments are Hindu holy cities.

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Khajuraho railway station

Khajuraho railway station is located in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh and serves as an entry point for the Khajuraho Group of Monuments, medieval Hindu famous for their erotic sculptures.

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Kushan Empire

The Kushan Empire (– AD) was a syncretic empire formed by the Yuezhi in the Bactrian territories in the early 1st century.

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List of districts in India

A district (zila), also known as revenue district is an administrative division of an Indian state or territory.

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Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh (meaning 'central province') is a state in central India.

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Male

Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilisation.

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Maurya Empire

The Maurya Empire (Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀫𑀸𑀕𑀥𑁂, Māgadhe) was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in South Asia based in Magadha (present day Bihar).

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Nagas of Padmavati

The Naga (IAST: Nāga) dynasty ruled parts of north-central India during the 3rd and the 4th centuries, after the decline of the Kushan Empire and before the rise of the Gupta Empire.

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Network18 Group

Network18 Media & Investments Limited, is an Indian media conglomerate, based in Mumbai.

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Press Trust of India

The Press Trust of India Ltd., commonly known as PTI, is the largest news agency in India.

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Pushyabhuti dynasty

The Pushyabhuti dynasty (IAST: Puṣyabhūti), also known as the Vardhana dynasty, was the ruling dynasty of the Kingdom of Thanesar and later the Kingdom of Kannauj in northern India during the 6th and 7th centuries.

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Qutb ud-Din Aibak

Qutb ud-Din Aibak (قطب‌الدین ایبک; 1150 – 14 November 1210) was a general of the Ghurid emperor Muhammad Ghori.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Shunga Empire

The Shunga dynasty (IAST) was the Fifth ruling dynasty of Magadha and controlled most of the northern Indian subcontinent from around 187 to 73 BCE.

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Sikandar Khan Lodi

Sikandar Khan Lodi (سکندر لودی; 17 July 1458 – 21 November 1517), born Nizam Khan (نظامخان), was Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate between 1489 and 1517.

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States and union territories of India

India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 entities.

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Temple

A temple (from the Latin templum) is a place of worship, a building used for spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice.

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Tikamgarh

Tikamgarh (also spelled as Tikamgadh)is a town and a tehsil in Tikamgarh district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Khajuraho and Tikamgarh are cities in Bundelkhand.

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Tourism in India

Tourism in India is 4.6% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP).

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khajuraho

Also known as Khajuraho (town), Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh.

Khajuraho, the Glossary

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Cities in Bundelkhand

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