Abhira people

The Abhira people is mentioned in the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata. A historical people of the same name are mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. They are thought to be people who moved in from eastern Iran in the aftermath of the invasion of Alexander the Great. Their main base was in the Indus delta (modern Sindh and Kathiawar), where their country is

Usri Falls

Usri Falls is a waterfall located in Giridih district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It is a popular tourist and picnic spot. Ushree means a “beautiful source”. Usri Falls Ushri falls Usri Falls Location Giridih district, Jharkhand, India Coordinates 24°5′47″N 86°22′14″E Elevation 288 metres (945 ft) Total height 12 metres (39 ft) Number of drops 3 Watercourse Usri River Geography Cities, towns and locations in the Giridih district in

Sudivya Kumar

Sudivya Kumar is an Indian politician and an MLA elected from Giridih block of Jharkhand state as a member of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 2019. Sudivya Kumar MLA, Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Jharkhand for Giridih Constituency Giridih Personal details Political party Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Parent Shambhu Nath Residence Jharkhand Occupation MLA

Shikharji

Shikharji (Śikharjī), also known as Sammed or Sammet Shikharji, is one of the Holiest pilgrimage sites for Jains, in Giridih district, Jharkhand. It is located on Parasnath hill, the highest mountain in the state of Jharkhand. It is the most important Jain Tirtha (pilgrimage site), for it is the place where twenty of the twenty-four Jain tirthankaras (supreme preachers of Dharma) along with many other monks

Semecarpus anacardium

Semecarpus anacardium, commonly known as the marking nut tree, Malacca bean tree, marany nut, oriental cashew, phobi nut tree and varnish tree, is a native of India, found in the outer Himalayas to the Coromandel Coast. It is closely related to the cashew. Etymology Semecarpus anacardium was called the “marking nut” by Europeans because it was used by washermen to mark cloth and clothing before washing, as it

Schleichera

Schleichera is a monotypic genus of plants in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. There is only one species, Schleichera oleosa, a tree that occurs in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Species Schleichera oleosa, kusum tree, Ceylon oak, lac tree, gum lac tree. It is a large deciduous (nearly evergreen) tree with a comparatively short fluted trunk and a shade spreading crown. It is frost and drought hardy and is

Sariya (community development block)

Sariya Mahraj Mathur is a community development block (CD block) that forms an administrative division in the Bagodar-Saria subdivision of the Giridih district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Overview Giridih is a plateau region. The western portion of the district is part of a larger central plateau. The rest of the district is a lower plateau, a flat table land with an elevation of about

Sarfaraz Ahmad

Sarfaraz Ahmad is an Indian politician from Jharkhand. Ahmad is a member of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha. He is a member of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. He represented Gandey constituency in 1980 and 2009 as INC MLA and in 2019 as JMM MLA.

Rajas

Rajas (Sanskrit: रजस्) is one of the three guṇas (tendencies, qualities, attributes), a philosophical and psychological concept developed by the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy. The other two qualities are sattva (goodness, balance) and tamas (lethargy, violence, disorder). Rajas is innate tendency or quality that drives motion, energy and activity. Rajas is sometimes translated as passion, where it is used in the sense of activity, without any particular value