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Black bird means something in the history of ancient India. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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Source: Singhi Jain Series: Ratnaprabha-suri’s Kuvalayamala-katha (history)Black birds were commonly depicted on the Saṃsāracakra paintings (representing scenes of animal life), in ancient India, as mentioned in the Kathās (narrative poems) such as Uddyotanasūri in his 8th-century Kuvalayamālā (a Prakrit Campū, similar to Kāvya poetry).—Page 185.21 f.: Here follows a description of a printed scroll illustrating the Jaina conception of saṃsāracakra. [...] The saṃsāra-cakra illustrated the three worlds of hell, human world and the world of gods. [For example:] A number of animals making a composite form, one upon another: spider caught in the web of another spider, the latter catching an insect pursued by a lizard and the latter caught by a black bird which flying in the sky with its feed was caught by a bird of prey, and the latter falling to the ground was caught by a wild cat which in turn was attacked by a wild boar, the latter was being attacked by leopard, and the leopard was attacked by a tiger, the latter instantaneously by a lion and the lion by a wild Śarabha (stronger than a lion and said to have eight feet).
The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
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Starts with: Black bird-berry.
Full-text (+15): Asitakhaga, Black bird-berry, Gopipi, Kalandaja, Uccapuccha, Kalota, Dhumyata, Karikkuruvi, Cirayu, Bhimaraja, Ciranjivi, Kake, Nhavi, Kakola, Prey, Flying, Khanjanaka, Khanjana, Sundareshvara, Leopard.
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Paraskara-grihya-sutra (by Hermann Oldenberg)
Resurgence of the Native: The Thematic Paradigm in the Short Fiction of Nguri Wa Thiongo < [July – September, 1997]
Summers in the Kashmir Valley < [April – June, 2001]
Soul’s Flight – A Flash of Thought < [January – March, 2003]
Gautama Dharmasūtra (by Gautama)
Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi (by Ganganatha Jha)
Verse 4.207 < [Section XIV - Other Duties]
Verse 5.123 < [Section XIII - Purification of Substances]
Mahabharata (English) (by Kisari Mohan Ganguli)
Section CVIII < [Tirtha-yatra Parva]
Yoga Vasistha [English], Volume 1-4 (by Vihari-Lala Mitra)
Chapter XVI - Conversation of vasishtha and bhusunda < [Book VI - Nirvana prakarana part 1 (nirvana prakarana)]