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She knew that our saint admitted no woman within the precinct of his Laura, no more than St. Simeon suffered them to step within the enclosure of the mandra or lodge about his pillar.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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He attached himself to a community of ascetics living within the mandra or enclosure of another pillar-hermit, named John, who acted as their spiritual director.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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[73] From [Greek: mandra], relating to cattle, and [Greek: agaron], baneful, injurious.
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction John Davenport 1833
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Within the space of a mandra, or circle of stones, to which he had attached himself by a ponderous chain, he ascended a column, which was successively raised from the height of nine, to that of sixty, feet from the ground.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765
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There are no doves in this story, only hawks disguised as doves, and lots of parrots like you repeating these boring and failed orthodox economic mandra, the net effect of which is always the transfer of wealth and its accumulation in the bank accuts of the new
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Observe how characteristically he rests on the mandra nishad, later to establish the relationship between pancham and rishab.
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He would travel to mandra Shadja with effortless ease even during the flourishes of taans.
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But, what we know from the study of musical sound is that the sounds we encounter in routine settings have a range starting from just below the mandra saptak, or lower octave [256-512Hz] to the tar saptak, or middle octave
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Such chalans explored both the mandra and taara saptak systematically, at times remarkably reaching the extremes of the lower octave.
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Within the space of a mandra, or circle of stones, to which he had attached himself by a ponderous chain, he ascended a column, which was successively raised from the height of nine, to that of sixty, feet from the ground.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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