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  THE BHAGAVAD GITA For the Hindu philosophers, the Bhagavad Gita has been always of great importance. It was also translated from Sanskrit into other languages. As a work of literature, the epic was immensely important to the cultural life of India and even beyond her shores.  According to Sargeant, the  Gita is, "said to have been translated at least 200 times, in both poetic and prose forms". Richard Davis cites a count by Callewaert & Hemraj in 1982 of 1,891 translations of the Bhagavad Gita in 75 languages, including 273 in English.   The Gita also found a rapt audience in the West. The Gita was first translated into English in India in 1785 by Charles Wilkins, a merchant with the East India company.  Sir Charles Wilkins was an English typographer and an orientalist and founding member of the Asiatic Society. He is notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English. The first Sanskrit edition came out in 1806 under the supervision of Sir...

DILIP KUMAR-THE VETERAN INDIAN BOLLYWOOD ACTOR DILIP KUMAR EARLY LIFE: Dilip Kumar , the original name  Muhammad Yusuf Khan , was born December 11, 1922, in Peshawar , British India ,  now in Pakistan. He was one of the twelve children of  Lala Ghulam Sarvar Khan and his wife Ayesha Begum. His father was a fruit merchant. Khan was schooled at Barnes School, Deolali.   In 1940 he moved to Pune and set up a dry fruit shop and a canteen. Khan never acted under his birth name.  In an interview in 1970, he said that he adopted this name out of fear of his father, who never approved of his acting career.   He began working in a British army canteen, where he was noticed by Devika Rani, a leading actress of the time, and her husband, Himanshu Rai, who hired him to act for the Bombay Talkies, a film company they owned.  CAREER: Kumar made his acting debut with the film Jwar Bhatta (1944), but it was not until a few years later that he had ...

Mother  Teresa Born Mother Teresa  was born  in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26, 1910. Her real name was  Agnes Gonxha  Bojaxhiu   ( Gonxha means flower bud in the Albanian language).    I n multi-cultural Skopje then part of the Ottoman Empire and now the capital of the Republic of Macedonia.  Mother Teresa  had an ethnic Albanian   mother  whose family came from Kosovo .  Mother  Teresa   was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary.   She grew up in a  wealthy family . Nikola  was  a merchant, trading in tobacco, medicine, and gold, from Macedonia to Romania.  She was the youngest of five siblings, it is believed that when she was only 12 years old, she realized that she would devote her whole life to human service and at the age of 18 she joined Sister of Loreto, after that she went to Ireland. Mother Teresa   famous for: Mother Teresa has been endowed with various a...