The temple is in existence from Chola times of 7th century and has been widely expanded by Nayaks during the 15-17th century.
They also call themselves Nikhar / Naikar which might be a corrupted form of Nayak, meaning commandant (नायक) as in case of Holkar Maratha of Indore, they also call themselves as Assal or Asali Dhangar.
She died on February 12, 2009 in her residence in Chembur.
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The aircraft, piloted by Flt Lt SK Nayak, had taken off from Adampur Air Force airbase about 10:00am, five minutes prior to the crash.
Alagiri Nayak was the younger brother of the Madurai Nayak king Chokkanatha Nayak and the last Nayak king of Thanjavur.
In 1996, C. Nayak and Frank Wilczek posited that in analogy to projective representations of SO(3), the projective representations of the braid group have a physical meaning for certain quasiparticles in the fractional quantum hall effect.
This Maravar palaiyam was located in the Sankarankovil taluk, in the former Tirunelveli province of the Nayak kingdom of Madurai.
He was responsible for helping fund a government school named after his mother "Radha Nayak Govt High School" in his village Yennehole in Udupi district of Karnataka, which was inaugurated by Amitabh Bachchan amidst the presence of many other Bollywood personalities.
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The Hindi movies Ab Tak Chhappan by Shimit Amin and N Chandra's Kagaar and a Kannada film named Encounter Daya Nayak were made based on his life.
Nicknamed Kaka, Nayak represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where India finished in seventh place.
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R. Dinesh Nayak (born May 17, 1975 in Ernakulam, Kerala) is a field hockey defender from India, who made his international debut for the Men's National Team in 1993 during the test serie against Kenya.
During an invasion of Alauddin Khilji, Kumaramuttu Nayak the founder of the dynasty migrated from Chandragiri to Tirunelveli where he was granted the region comprising the later-established Ettaiyapuram estate.
Some surnames are specific only to Ghotis and Edeshis, like Ghosh,Adak, Adhikary, Bagui, Bhaduri,Bor or Bar, Daffadar, Dandapat,Dolui, De, Dey, Gorai, Guin, Chowdhury, Hazra, Hela, Jana, Karan, Karak, Karmakar, Kundu, Laha, Mahapatra, Maity, Middye, Modak, Nag, Nandi, Naskar, Nayak, Neogi, Paik, Pain, Pal, Panja, Patra, Sadhu, Sadhukhan, Samanta, Sardar, Sapui, Sasmal, Sett, She-al, Sinha, Tarafder, Topdar, Mihiracharyaa etc.
In 1951, Nayak earned his high school diploma from Peoples Multi-purpose High School, Ankola.
She is currently playing character of Manjari Satya Nayak in the television series Do Dil Ek Jaan on Life OK Tv channel opposite Akshay Dogra.
The Nayak style (1600 - 1750 CE) is noted for the addition of large prakaram(outer courtyard) (circumambulatory paths) and pillared halls.
Present-day Mannargudi dates from the time of the Thanjavur Nayak king, Vijaya Raghava Nayak (1633–1673), also called "Mannaru dasan" who carried out extensive renovations of the Rajagopalaswami temple complex and is credited by some with having reclaimed the land from the surrounding forest.
For this purpose, the empire was divided into Amaras (areas of revenue-producing land), that were granted to leaders called Nayakas.
After the demise of Kaapaya Nayak there was an en masse migration of Nayaks to the Vijayanagara Empire.
Nayak, was born on 1 January 1945 in the Naadumaskeri village in an agriculturists and freedom fighters' family.
Sevappa Nayak was a feudatory of the Vijayanagar Empire and the governor of Thanjavur who founded the Thanjavur Nayak kingdom.
Nayak of Kalb Ali Khan court Bahadur Hussain Khan (Zia-ud-Daula,title conferred by Wajid Ali Shah,son of Jeevan Shah of Jhansi,grandson of Miyan Manrang,nephew(Bhaanje) of Pyar Khan of Awadh, maternal Grandson of Sadarang).
Tejas Networks was founded in May 2000 by Sanjay Nayak with funding from Gururaj Deshpande (brother-in-law of Infosys founder, N. R. Narayana Murthy), with funding $5 million initially, and US-based ASG-Omni.
Vijaya Raghava Nayak (1634–1673), was the last of the Nayak Kings of Thanjavur.
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Raghunatha Nayak (1600–1634) is regarded as the greatest in the Thanjavur Nayak dynasty.
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Sevappa Nayak (1532–1580), was the first Thanjavur Nayak king.
The mid-17th-century palace at the base of the rock was built by Chokkanatha Nayak, now known as Rani Mangammal Mahal or Town Hall, and features a Durbar hall.