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Mount Abu, the Glossary

Mount Abu is a hill station in the Aravalli Range in the Sirohi district of the state of Rajasthan in western India.^[1]

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Aravalli Range
Hill stations in Rajasthan
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Abu Road

Abu Road is a city and sub-district in Sirohi district of Rajasthan state in western India, lies on the bank of West Banas River.

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Abu Road railway station

Abu Road railway station (station code: ABR) is located in Abu Road in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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The Achaleshwar Mahadev Temple (Devanagari: अचलेश्वर महादेव मन्दिर, Mandir) is a Shiva temple situated just outside the Achalgarh Fort, located in the Abu Road tehsil of Sirohi district, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Achalgarh Fort

Achalgarh is a fort situated about north of Mount Abu, a hill station in Rajasthan, India.

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Agnivansha

In Indian culture, the Agnivanshi are people who claim descent from Agni, the Vedic god of fire.

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Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad (is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per the 2011 population census) makes it the fifth-most populous city in India, and the encompassing urban agglomeration population estimated at 6,357,693 is the seventh-most populous in India.

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Aravalli Range

The Aravalli Range (also spelled Aravali) is a mountain range in Northern-Western India, running approximately in a south-west direction, starting near Delhi, passing through southern Haryana, Rajasthan, and ending in Ahmedabad Gujarat.

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Arjuna

Arjuna was an ancient prince of the Kuru Kingdom, located in the present-day India.

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Asian Educational Services

Asian Educational Services (AES) is a New Delhi, India-based publishing house that specialises in antiquarian reprints of books that were originally published between the 17th and early 20th centuries.

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Atri

Atri or Attri is a Vedic sage, who is credited with composing numerous hymns to Agni, Indra, and other Vedic deities of Hinduism.

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Brahma Kumaris

The Brahma Kumaris (ब्रह्माकुमारी ("Daughters of Brahma") is a spiritual movement that originated in Hyderabad, Sindh, during the 1930s.. censamm.org brahmakumaris.orgMonier-Williams, Monier (1899) Sanskrit Dictionary. Clarendon Press, Oxford.) Founded by Lekhraj Kripalani, the organisation teaches the importance of moving beyond labels associated with the human body, including race, nationality, religion, and gender, through meditation that emphasizes the concept of identity as souls rather than bodies.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Country

A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity.

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Dainik Bhaskar

Dainik Bhaskar is a Hindi-language daily newspaper in India which is owned by the Dainik Bhaskar Group.

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Dattatreya

Dattatreya (दत्तात्रेय), Dattā or Dattaguru, is a paradigmatic Sannyasi (monk) and one of the lords of yoga, venerated as a Hindu god.

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Dilwara Temples

The Dilwara Temples or Delvada Temples are a group of Śvētāmbara Jain temples located about kilometres from the Mount Abu settlement in Sirohi District, Rajasthan's only hill station.

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Durga

Durga (दुर्गा) is a major Hindu goddess, worshipped as a principal aspect of the mother goddess Mahadevi.

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Gandhinagar

Gandhinagar is the capital of the state of Gujarat in India.

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Gujarat

Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.

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Guru Shikhar

Guru Shikhar, a peak in the Arbuda Mountains of Sirohi district in Rajasthan, is the highest point of the Aravalli Range, Rajasthan, and Western India. Mount Abu and Guru Shikhar are Aravalli Range.

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Hill station

A hill station is a town located at a higher elevation than the nearby plain or valley.

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Hindi

Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.

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Hindu temple

A Hindu temple, also known as Mandir, Devasthanam, Pura, or Koil, is a sacred place where Hindus worship and show their devotion to deities through worship, sacrifice, and prayers.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.

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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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ISO 3166-2:IN

ISO 3166-2:IN is the entry for India in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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Jain temple

A Jain temple, Derasar (Gujarati: દેરાસર) or Basadi (Kannada: ಬಸದಿ) is the place of worship for Jains, the followers of Jainism.

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Jainism

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

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Kalpavriksha

Kalpavriksha (Kalpavṛkṣa) is a wish-fulfilling divine tree in religions like Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism.

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Kumbha of Mewar

Kumbhkaran Singh (1417–1468), popularly known as Maharana Kumbha, was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mewar.

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L. Landon's writings are emblematic of the transition from Romanticism to Victorian literature.

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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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Mahabharata

The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.

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Mahavira

Mahavira (Devanagari: महावीर), also known as Vardhamana (Devanagari: वर्धमान), the 24th Tirthankara (Supreme Teacher) of Jainism.

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Marble

Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2)) that have crystallized under the influence of heat and pressure.

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Mount Abu Wildlife Sanctuary

Mount Abu Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the Aravalli Range, one of the oldest mountain ranges in India.

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Nakki Lake

Nakki Lake is a lake situated in the Indian hill station of Mount Abu in Aravalli range.

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Neminatha

Nemināth (Devanagari: नेमिनाथ) (Sanskrit: नेमिनाथः), also known as Nemi and Ariṣṭanemi (Devanagari: अरिष्टनेमि), is the twenty-second tirthankara of Jainism in the present age (Avasarpini).

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Parshvanatha

Parshvanatha (पार्श्वनाथः), or and Pārasanātha, was the 23rd of 24 Tirthankaras (supreme preacher of dharma) of Jainism.

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Pindwara

Pindwara is a municipality and tehsil located, nearby Sirohi city in Sirohi District in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Postal Index Number

A Postal Index Number (PIN; sometimes redundantly a PIN code) refers to a six-digit code in the Indian postal code system used by India Post.

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Puranas

Puranas (पुराण||ancient, old (1995 Edition), Article on Puranas,, page 915) are a vast genre of Hindu literature about a wide range of topics, particularly about legends and other traditional lore.

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Rajasthan

Rajasthan (lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northwestern India.

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Rajputana Agency

The Rajputana Agency was a political office of the British Indian Empire dealing with a collection of native states in Rajputana (now in Rajasthan, northwestern India), under the political charge of an Agent reporting directly to the Governor-General of India and residing at Mount Abu in the Aravalli Range.

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Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India

Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, founded in 1961 by the Government of India Ministry of Home Affairs, for arranging, conducting and analysing the results of the demographic surveys of India including Census of India and Linguistic Survey of India.

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References

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

Also known as Abu, Mount, Arbuda, Arbuda Mountains, Arbudaanchal, Mount Aboo, Mount Abu (India), Mt. Abu, Mt.Abu.

, Sirohi district, States and union territories of India, The Hindu, Tirthankara, University of Chicago Press, University of Nebraska Press, University of Oxford, Vasishtha, Vastupala, Vishvamitra, Winter Festival at Mount Abu, Rajasthan, Yajna, 2011 census of India.

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See also

Aravalli Range

Hill stations in Rajasthan

Jain pilgrimage sites

Sacred mountains of India

Tourism in Rajasthan

Tourist attractions in Sirohi district

References