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  • He points to the word hiranya-garbha in the mantrams, which he translates by the word "gold," and adds that, as the part of the Vedas called chanda appeared 3,100 years ago, the part called mantrams could not have been written earlier than 2,900 years ago.

    From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan 1861

  • Now someone needs to start a little 'chanda' fund, a little campaign to collect kisi se, paanch sau, kisi se teen sau rupaye, so that Hindol baba can be put on the next plane to some suffushiently suffustucated micro-emirate, where Angrezi bol bala waley baba-log with the right kind of manicure have the divine right to rule.

    Kafila 2009

  • Now someone needs to start a little 'chanda' fund, a little campaign to collect kisi se, paanch sau, kisi se teen sau rupaye, so that Hindol baba can be put on the next plane to some suffushiently suffustucated micro-emirate, where Angrezi bol bala waley baba-log with the right kind of manicure have the divine right to rule.

    Kafila 2009

  • Namah samanta vajranam chanda maharoshana Sphataya hum traks ham mam

    gary snyder | smokey the bear sutra « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

  • Mere bhaiya mere chanda mere anamol ratan tere badale main zamaane ki koi cheez na lu 2

    Archive 2009-08-01 photographerno1 2009

  • I have some children's music - Bollywood that Gudiya listens, it has chanda hain tu, nani teri morni etc etc. even lakdi ki kathi and dadi amma maan jao etc.

    8*8*8* MeMe Meera 2008

  • At a place called Burja some people were collecting chanda.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Abhay N 2006

  • At a place called Burja some people were collecting chanda.

    Orissa DIG killed due to accidental firing Abhay N 2006

  • Just as chanda-gati, when not the result of sheer avarice, can be caused by fear of want or fear of losing the goodwill of those one loves, so fear of being surpassed, humiliated or injured in some way can provide the impetus for ill will.

    Freedom From Fear Aung San Suu Kyi 1991

  • Kalawati chanda marriage reception party in Glastonbury CT USA. AVI

    WN.com - Articles related to ‘Secular’ leaders attend yagna for Hindu Nepal 2010

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