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Madol Doova ( Sinhala: මඩොල් දූව is a children's novel and coming-of-age story written by Sri Lankan writer Martin Wickramasinghe and first published in 1947. The book recounts the misadventures of Upali Giniwella and his friends on the Southern coast of Sri Lanka during the 1890s. It later describes the efforts of Upali and his ...
Maha Saman Devalaya or the Great Saman Temple (also called Sumana Saman Devalaya) is a shrine dedicated to deity Saman, situated at Ratnapura, Sri Lanka who is the presiding deity of the Sri Pada Mountain which is also called Samanthakuta meaning the mountain of Saman which is believed to have the left foot impression of Buddha which he kept in his visit to Sri Lanka.
The Samanid dynasty was founded by Saman Khuda, his descendants became rulers of the Samanid Empire. He was a dehqan of Iranian origin from the village of Saman in Balkh province, in present-day northern Afghanistan. The earliest appearance of the Samanid family appears to be in Greater Khorasan rather than Transoxiana.
Ismail was born in Farghana in 849—he was the son of Ahmad ibn Asad, and had a brother named Nasr I, who ascended the Samanid throne in 864/5. During Nasr's reign, Ismail was sent to take control of Bukhara, which had been devastated by looting on the part of forces from Khwarezm. The citizens of the city welcomed Ismail, seeing him as ...
Saman Khuda. Saman Khuda ( Saman Khoda, Saman-khudat; Persian: سامانخدا، سامانخدات) was an 8th-century Iranian noble whose descendants (the House of Saman) later became rulers of Khurasan (the Samanid Empire ). He was a Dehqan from the village of Saman in Balkh province in present-day northern Afghanistan. [1]
Saman dance. Saman (or the dance of a thousand hands) is one of the most popular dances in Indonesia. Its origin is from the Gayo ethnic group from Gayo Lues, Aceh province, Indonesia, and is normally performed to celebrate important occasions. [1] The dance is characterized by its fast-paced rhythm and common harmony between dancers.
Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance. [1] [2] The goal of this is usually to direct spirits or spiritual energies into the physical world for the purpose of healing, divination , or to aid human ...
Seyed Saman Ghoddoos [note 1] ( Persian: سامان قدّوس; born 6 September 1993) is an Iranian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or striker for Premier League club Brentford and the Iran national team. A versatile player, Ghoddos can also be deployed as a winger, wing-back or full-back .
Saman Suttam is the religious text created in 1974 by a committee consisting of representatives of each of the major sects of Jainism, Digambaras and Svetambaras, to reconcile the teachings of the sects. After a gap of about nearly two thousand years following composition of Tattvartha Sutra by Acharya Umasvati this was the first text to be ...
UTC+5:30 ( IST) Saman (or Samān) is a large village in Kishni block of Mainpuri district, Uttar Pradesh. It is the site of the Saman Bird Sanctuary, a large wetland area designated as a protected Ramsar site since 2019. The village lands occupy a large area, and there are many distinct hamlets counted as part of its administrative jurisdiction.