The origins of the caste system in India and Nepal are not fully known, but castes seem to have originated more than 2,000 years ago. Under this system, associated with Hinduism, people were categorized by their occupations. Although caste originally depended upon a person's work, the classif...
Metal workers in Nepal used copper and bronze as well as other metals for casting and gilding, jewelry, making coins, and setting crystals, coral, and gems. By the tenth century, metal art is believed to have surpassed stone in quantity and demand. Metal art work in the higher hills and ...
Nepal Profile History News and Current Events Geography A landlocked country the size of Arkansas, lying between India and the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China, Nepal contains Mount Everest (29,035 ft; 8,850 m), the tallest mountain in the world. Along its southern border, Nepal has a str...
22.AccordingtothetraditionalHinducastesystem,anunskilledworker wouldbeconsideredpartofwhichclass? A.Brahmans B.Harijans C.Kshatriya D.Shudra E.Vaishya 23.HoChiMinhreturnedtoVietnamin1941andfoundedthe Vietminhinresponsetoacrisisprimarilyconcerning A.increasingcommunistinfluenceinVietnam B.Americanmilitarizationof...
Brahmanism, the Jainism admits in practice the institution of caste & a group of 16 essential rites, called samskaras, prescribed for the first three varna (castes) of Hindus & recognizes some of the minor deities of the Hindu pantheon: nevertheless, Jainism, like Buddhism, is essentially athe...
He was born in the Sakia republic in Kapilayastu, in the foothills of the Himalayas, the current border between Nepal and India, 560 BC. He died in Kusinagara, today Kasia in present-day India in 480 BC. He taught about the middle path between sensual complacency and strict asceticism. ...
(Nepal).He lost his mother (Mahamaya) just a few days after his birth and was brought up by his stepmotherGautami.There were32 birthmarkson his body and Brahmanas predicted that either he would be a world conqueror or a world renouncer. He lived a life of luxury and comfort in his ...
Jaya Gupta II (Nepal) Yaksha Gupta (Nepal) Vishva Gupta (Nepal) Bhumi Gupta (Nepal) Jishnu Gupta (Nepal, His inscription reads Kshatriya of the Lunar Dynasty, Somavansa Bhushana) Badasimha Jaymati Simha Virsen (Jalgaon) Bhuban Simha
Mahavira (also, Lord Mahavira) is generally recognized as the most recent reformer of Jainist tradition and the teacher/prophet responsible for the organizational expression of Jainism that we see today. Jainism is most widely practiced in India and Nepal, with a small but significant minority of...
Devimahatmya manuscript on palm-leaf, in an early Bhujimol script, Bihar or Nepal, 11th century The Prakrits became literary languages, generally patronized by kings identified with the ksatriya caste. The earliest inscriptions in Prakrit are those of Asoka, emperor of Southern India, and while...