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Post No.7703

Date uploaded in London – 16 March 2020   

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ACROSS

1.– (10) letters ) India’s old name in Puranas, based on a tree.

7. – (6) the Inter Galactic traveller; Hindu messenger, Tri loka Sanchari

8. (4) Season, Kalidasa has written poem on it.

10. – (11) Third highest civilian award in India

12. – (12) Story of Devi/Goddess

18. – (5) Indian Yam

17. -(5) Indian sweet pan cake

19. – (5) enemy; foe

20.– (4) left

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DOWN

1. –  (8 letters) town where a particular community settled in ancient India; many cities have ABAD suffix reminding this.

2.– (8 ) mother of Maurya Chandra Gupta

3. – (5) upward. A dance with lifting foot is called with this word.

4.–(6)means boar; one of the ten avatars of Vishnu.

5 – (6) means axe. One Avatar took this in hand and went to Kerala

6. – (5) that which is heard; Veda’s another name

9. – (4 )grass; a political party in West Bengal is named with this word.

11. (4) soul

13. – (3) earth

14. (3) Water

15. – (4) virtue in Sanskrit; Hindu scriptures say man has three different virtues

16. – (4) boon; many Hindu stories are based on Boons given by god.