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- the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC
How To Use Kriti In A Sentence
- For example, a condom campaign in India in the 1970s involved renaming the product Nirodh from a Sanskritic word meaning “protection”. Diffusion of Innovations
- The learned Sanskritist, H.H. Wilson, quotes the name Pippilika = ant-gold, given by the people of Little Thibet to the precious dust thrown up in the emmet heaps. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Kriti sat down cross-legged on a mat and gulped down a lota of milk.
- Order a thimble of strong, raki-spiked elliniki coffee and hobnob with black-shirted shepherds listening to Cretan music on Radio Kriti FM at the kafeneion in the central square, then pay a call at the corner house, cluttered with memorabilia, where sweet-voiced Nikos Xylouris grew up. Insiders' guide to Greece
- Angkor Wat was devoted to Vishnu; this may reveal an awareness of and sensitivity to the larger Sanskritic world, since this sect was prominent at the time in India and Java. B. Mainland Southeast Asia
- Though Sen, 72, won his 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics and has taught the subject at both Harvard and Cambridge, he could just as convincingly be described as a sociologist, historian, Sanskritist, political analyst and moral philosopher -- for starters -- as his new book makes clear. Winning Argument
- She's envisioning something like a galactic explosion outward from a Sanskritic big bang of three or maybe five thousand years ago. Christopher Lydon: Namita Gokhale: the revolution will be written! (AUDIO)
- The language of the Weddas is regarded as a base descendant of the most complete and first known form of Aryan speech, the Sanskrit; and the Weddas are set down as descendants of the Sanskritic Aryans, who conquered India. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880
- Eternal and Fixed, He that is possessed of beautiful limbs, (or, He the ascension unto whom is the best of all acts), He who has such knowledge having penance for its indication that He is able to agitable Prakriti for evolving the universe out of her (CXIV -- CXXII); He that goes everywhere (in the sense of pervading all things as their cause), the The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
- Then Kriti met a goatherd whistling and hooting at his bleating goats.