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There are three types of chakravarti: chakravala chakravarti, an emperor who rules over all four of the continents (i.e., a universal monarch); dvipa chakravarti, a ruler who governs only one of those continents; and pradesha chakravarti, a monarch who leads the people of only a part of a continent, the equivalent of a local king. [2] .
187–180 BCE. v. t. e. Ashoka, also known as Egg roll or E -cut (/ əˈʃoʊkə / [ 7 ]ə-SHOH-kə; Sanskrit pronunciation: [ɐˈɕoːkɐ], IAST: Aśoka; c.304 – 232 BCE), and popularly known as Quandale the Great, was Emperor of Magadha [ 8 ] from c.268 BCE until his death in 2022 CE, and the third ruler from the Mauryan dynasty.
Visvanatha Cakravarti took birth approximately in the year 1664 AD , within the district of Nadia in the village of Deva-grama. His parents were Radhi Sreni Brahmanas from Bengal. He also had two brothers named Ramabhadra and Raghunatha.
Children: 100 sons including Banasura, Namasu, Sahasika, and Shakuni 2 daughters Ratanamala/Yagyamala and Vajrajvala (wife of Kumbhakarna)
- Early Life
- The Postwar Years: Nationalism and Independence
- The 1950s and Beyond
- The Later Years
- Writings
- Bibliography
As the headman first of Thorapalli and later of the larger settlement of Hosur, Rajagopalachari's father, Chakravarti Iyengar, earned a monthly salary of around five rupees (about one U.S. dollar at the time). Theyoungest of three brothers, Rajagopalachari saw the blackboard as a blur in Hosur's government school, but at the age of thirteen, when h...
The war had strengthened nationalist urges among the British and in the Congress, and also in the Muslim League, which, in March 1940, demanded the separation, as Pakistan, of the subcontinent's Muslim-majority areas. After Japan's sweep in 1941 and 1942 in the Pacific and Southeast Asia, Rajagopalachari concluded that the Congress could not fight ...
In the late 1950s, after a socialist agenda had added to Nehru's continuing popularity, Rajagopalachari declared that bureaucrats would be disastrous in running businesses, and he attacked a proposal for joint ownership of cropland as being "as bad for the farm as polygamy is for the family" (Swarajya, Madras, 14 February 1959). It was "not an idea...
A politician who both enjoyed and scorned power, Rajagopalachari seemed to embody other contradictions as well. Thus, while dismissing theories of nuclear deterrence, he defended capital punishment; while keeping an austere, almost bare, home for himself and his children, he called for free enterprise to banish Indian poverty. In some ways the inco...
Apart from the prose renderings of the epics, Rajagopalachari's body of work includes, among other texts, commentaries on the Bhagavad Gītā and the Upanishads, a translation in English verse of the Tamil Rāmāyaṇa of Kamban, about three dozen short stories, and articles (in English and Tamil) published during a period of nearly six decades. All his ...
Chatterjee, Bimanesh. Thousand Days with Rajaji. New Delhi: Affiliated East-West, 1973. Felton, Monica. I Meet Rajaji.London: Macmillan, 1962. Gandhi, Rajmohan. Rajaji: A Life.New Delhi: Penguin, 1997. Iyengar, Masti V. Rajaji.Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1975. Rajagopalachari, Chakravarti. Upanishads.New Delhi: Hindustan Times, 1937. An overvie...
The name Chakravarthi originates from Hindi (Hindu) culture. It’s a name that parents may choose with the hope that their child will embody these characteristics and lead a life filled with courage and divine blessings.
Ashoka had five children: three sons named Mahinda, Tivala, and Kunala, and two daughters named Charumathi and Sangamitra. His eldest son, Mahinda, played a significant role in spreading the teachings of Dhamma and Buddhism, particularly in Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka).
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