20. Upacaras. – There are ten articles of worship: (1) Arghya (oblation of valuables ) (2) Padya ( water for washing feet) (3) Acamana (water for cleansing mouth) (4) Madhuparka (a mixture of honey with four other sweet articles) (5) Punaracamana (water for cleansing mouth again) (6) Gandha (Sandal paste) (7) Puspa (flowers) (8) Dhupa […]
Number 10 was the Pythagorean symbol of perfection or completeness. Humans have ten fingers and ten toes. Counting on fingers probably led to the decimal number system, with its symbols 0–9 and its place values. 1. The ten books on rhetorics. (Alankaragranthas) (1) The Sahityadarpana of Visvanatha (2) The Kavyadarsa of Dandi (3) Kavyaprakasa of […]
Six – the number six is a symbolic representation of human mind, as it is the sixth sense organ with six faculties – reason, emotion, thought, awareness, knowledge and intelligence. According to bible, God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh day. Our mind has six faculties – reason, emotion, thought, […]
68.Under British law, when you reach the age of seven you can open and draw money from a National Savings Bank account or a Trustee Savings Bank account. 69. In China 7 determines the stages of female life: a girl gets her “milk teeth” at seven months, loses them at seven years, reaches puberty at […]
42. Mathematics – The number 7 has some curious particularities. For example 1 divided by 7 gives a simple recurring decimal of six digits: 0.142857142857142857… and this one multiplied successively by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, gives products where we find the same numbers in the same order: i. 142857 x 2 = 285714 ii. […]
Seven – Seven is a sacred number representing the union of divinity (number three) and earth (number 4). The meaning of seven reminds us that there is symmetry, reason, and order within the structure of the Universe. SAPTADVIPAS (SEVEN ISLANDS). – The seven islands are Jambudvipa, Plaksadvlpa, Salmalidvlpa, Kusadvipa, Krauncadvipa, Sakadvipa and Puskaradvipa. SAPTANAGA (Seven […]
K 9 – The word “K-9” pronounces the same as canine and is used in many U.S. police departments to denote the police dog unit. Despite not sounding like the translation of the word canine in other languages, many police and military units around the world use the same designation. Mathematics – Nine is the […]
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