Panchal, the Glossary
Panchal or Panchal-Brahmin (Sanskrit: पांचाल, romanized: Pānchāl) is a Master Craftsman caste of India.[1]
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58 relations: Architecture, Arti (Hinduism), Bhandara (community kitchen), Blacksmith, Brahma, Brahman, Brahmin, Carpentry, Colonial India, Devanagari transliteration, Diwali, Dwarka, Engineering, Ernest Binfield Havell, Exogamy, Goldsmith, Govardhan Puja, Government of Haryana, Harivaṃśapurāṇa, Haryanvi language, Hindi, Hindu texts, Hinduism, Hindus, Homa (ritual), Indra, Indraprastha, Ishtadevata, Jagannath, Jagannath Temple, Puri, Jassa Singh Ramgarhia, Langar (Sikhism), Lanka, List of governors of Haryana, Lohar, Mahabharata, Manusmriti, Master craftsman, Pahari language, Prasada, Punjabi language, Ramayana, Rigveda, Sanskrit, Shilpa Shastras, Shiva Purana, Temple, Tripura Sundari Temple, Vajra, Varaha Purana, ... Expand index (8 more) »
Architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.
Arti (Hinduism)
Arti or Arati is a Hindu ritual employed in worship, part of a puja, in which light from a flame (fuelled by camphor, ghee, or oil) is ritually waved to venerate deities.
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Bhandara (community kitchen)
Bhandara service in Hindu Dharma, is the special free of cost meal, served to the devotees present in the Temple.
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Blacksmith
A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects primarily from wrought iron or steel, but sometimes from other metals, by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. tinsmith).
Brahma
Brahma (ब्रह्मा) is a Hindu god, referred to as "the Creator" within the Trimurti, the trinity of supreme divinity that includes Vishnu and Shiva.
Brahman
In Hinduism, Brahman (ब्रह्मन्; IAST: Brahman) connotes the highest universal principle, the Ultimate Reality of the universe.
Brahmin
Brahmin (brāhmaṇa) is a varna (caste) within Hindu society.
Carpentry
Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc.
Colonial India
Colonial India was the part of the Indian subcontinent that was occupied by European colonial powers during the Age of Discovery.
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Devanagari transliteration
Devanagari is an Indic script used for many Indo-Aryan languages of North India and Nepal, including Hindi, Marathi and Nepali, which was the script used to write Classical Sanskrit.
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Diwali
Diwali (Deepavali, IAST: Dīpāvalī) is the Hindu festival of lights, with variations celebrated in other Indian religions.
Dwarka
Dwarka is a town and municipality of Devbhumi Dwarka district in the state of Gujarat.
Engineering
Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to solve technical problems, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve systems.
Ernest Binfield Havell
Ernest Binfield Havell (16 September 1861 – 31 December 1934), who published under the name E.B. Havell, was an influential English arts administrator, art historian and author of numerous books about Indian art and architecture.
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Exogamy
Exogamy is the social norm of mating or marrying outside one's social group.
Goldsmith
A goldsmith is a metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals.
Govardhan Puja
Govardhan Puja, also known as Annakut or Annakoot (meaning a “mountain of food”), is a Hindu festival celebrated on the first lunar day of the bright fortnight of the month of Kartika, on the fourth day of Diwali.
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Government of Haryana
Government of Haryana, also known as the State Government of Haryana, or locally as the Haryana Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Haryana and its 22 districts.
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Harivaṃśapurāṇa
was composed by Acharya Jinasena in 783 AD.
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Haryanvi language
Haryanvi (हरियाणवी or हरयाणवी) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Haryana and the territory of Delhi.
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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.
Hindu texts
Hindu texts or Hindu scriptures are manuscripts and voluminous historical literature which are related to any of the diverse traditions within Hinduism.
Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
Homa (ritual)
In Indic religions, a homa (Sanskrit: होम) or homam, also known as havan, is a fire ritual performed on special occasions by a Hindu priest usually for a homeowner ("grihastha": one possessing a home).
Indra
Indra (इन्द्र) is the king of the devas and Svarga in Hinduism.
Indraprastha
Indraprastha (lit. "Plain of Indra" or "City of Indra") is mentioned in ancient Indian literature as a city of the Kuru Kingdom.
Ishtadevata
Ishta-deva or ishta devata (Sanskrit: इष्ट देव(ता),, literally "cherished divinity" from iṣṭa, "personal, liked, cherished, preferred" and devatā, "godhead, divinity, tutelary deity" or deva, "deity"), is a term used in Hinduism denoting a worshipper's favourite deity.
Jagannath
Jagannatha (Jagannātha; formerly Juggernaut) is a deity worshipped in regional Hindu traditions in India as part of a triad along with his (Krishna's) brother Balabhadra, and sister, Subhadra.
Jagannath Temple, Puri
The Jagannath Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Jagannath, a form of Vishnu in Hinduism.
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Jassa Singh Ramgarhia
Jassa Singh Ramgarhia (1723–1803) was a prominent Sikh leader during the period of the Sikh Confederacy.
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Langar (Sikhism)
In Sikhism, a langar (ਲੰਗਰ, pronunciation:, 'kitchen'Pashaura Singh, Louis E. Fenech, 2014) is the community kitchen of a gurdwara, which serves meals to all free of charge, regardless of religion, caste, gender, economic status, or ethnicity.
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Lanka
Lanka is the name given in Hindu epics to the island fortress capital of the legendary asura king Ravana in the epics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
List of governors of Haryana
This is a list of governors of the Indian state of Haryana, which was carved out from Punjab on 1 November 1966.
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Lohar
Lohar is considered to be a caste among Hindus and a clan among Muslims and Sikhs in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand, and in Nepal.
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.
Manusmriti
The Manusmṛti (मनुस्मृति), also known as the Mānava-Dharmaśāstra or the Laws of Manu, is one of the many legal texts and constitutions among the many of Hinduism.
Master craftsman
Historically, a master craftsman or master tradesman (sometimes called only master or grandmaster) was a member of a guild.
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Pahari language
Pahari, or Pahadi (पहाड़ी pahāṛī 'of the hills/mountains') is an ambiguous term that has been used for a variety of languages, dialects and language groups, most of which are found in the lower Himalayas.
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Prasada
Sri Maya Chandrodaya Mandir in Mayapur, India Prasāda (Sanskrit: प्रसाद), prasadam or prasad is a religious offering in Hinduism.
Punjabi language
Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Punjab region of Pakistan and India.
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Ramayana
The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata.
Rigveda
The Rigveda or Rig Veda (ऋग्वेद,, from ऋच्, "praise" and वेद, "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (sūktas).
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Shilpa Shastras
Shilpa Shastras (शिल्प शास्त्र) literally means the Science of Shilpa (arts and crafts).
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Shiva Purana
The Shiva Purana is one of eighteen major texts of the Purana genre of Sanskrit texts in Hinduism, and part of the Shaivism literature corpus.
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.
Tripura Sundari Temple
Tripura Sundari Temple is a Hindu temple of the Goddess Tripura Sundari, better known locally as Devi Tripureshwari.
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Vajra
The Vajra is a legendary and ritualistic tool, symbolizing the properties of a diamond (indestructibility) and a thunderbolt (irresistible force).
Varaha Purana
The Varaha Purana (वराह पुराण) is a Sanskrit text from the Puranas genre of literature in Hinduism.
Vastu shastra
Originating in ancient India, Vastu Shastra (वास्तु शास्त्र, – literally "science of architecture") is a traditional Hindu system of architecture based on ancient texts that describe principles of design, layout, measurements, ground preparation, space arrangement, and spatial geometry.
Vedas
The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India.
Vishvakarma
Vishvakarma or Vishvakarman (lit) is a craftsman deity and the divine architect of the devas in contemporary Hinduism.
Vishvakarma Puja
Vishvakarma Puja, also rendered Vishvakarma Jayanti, is a Hindu observance dedicated to Vishvakarma, the architect of the gods.
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Vishwakarma (caste)
The Vishwakarma community are a social group of India, sometimes described as a caste.
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Worship
Worship is an act of religious devotion usually directed towards a For many, worship is not about an emotion, it is more about a recognition of a God.
Yajurveda
The Yajurveda (यजुर्वेद,, from यजुस्, "worship", and वेद, "knowledge") is the Veda primarily of prose mantras for worship rituals.
Yama
Yama (lit), also known as Kāla and Dharmarāja, is the Hindu god of death and justice, responsible for the dispensation of law and punishment of sinners in his abode, Naraka.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchal
Also known as Panchals.
, Vastu shastra, Vedas, Vishvakarma, Vishvakarma Puja, Vishwakarma (caste), Worship, Yajurveda, Yama.