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7 unusual facts about manas


Antahkarana

# Manas (mind) – controls sankalpa (will or resolution)

Janysh Kulmambetov

The author of the monograph Manas "- an epic drama and epic theater of the Kyrgyz people and the book "In the world of the theater" (published in1987in Frunze).

Jews in Kyrgyzstan

In Manas, several central-Asian cities are described as having Jewish communities in them, among them Samarkand, Bukhara and Baghdad, though non of them have ever been inhabited by a majority of Kyrgyz people nor included in a Kyrgyz territory.

In Kyrgyz tradition, the term "Djeet" was used in order to describe Jews, and it is mentioned in the Kyrgyz epic poem manas, which dates back to the 10th century CE.

Keshava Namas

#Aniruddha - One who is uncontrollable & unstoppable, One who is the Lord of Manas (Mind), Fourth amongst the four fold manifestation (Chatur-Vyuha) of Lord Vishnu (i.e. Vasudeva, Sankarshana, Pradyumna, Aniruddha)

Manas-vijnana

Manas refers to mental "actions" (kamma), as opposed to those actions that are physical or verbal.

:Of these six Vijñānas, the Manojivñāna is the most important as it is directly related to an inner faculty known as Manas.


3349 Manas

"Manas" comes from the name of the hero of the Kyrgyz epic poem Epic of Manas.

Battle of Itakhuli

With the fall of Itakhuli, the Ahom kingdom quickly occupied the region up to Manas river, and set up administration under the Borphukan, with his headquarters at Guwahati.

Dimitris Rontiris

He returned to Greece and appointed in 1933 director of the Royal Theatre other than the Odeio Theatre where he appeared first as a director, with the musical drama by Kalomiri To daktili tis manas (Το δαχτυλίδι της μάνας "Mother's Ring").

Edgar Manas

Manas was appointed choirmaster of Գողթան երգչախումբ (The Choir of Goghtn) of the Armenian patriarchal church in Istanbul, where he served for twenty years until 1957.

Foros Group

Founded in 2009 by former Deutsche Bank M&A chief Jean Manas, Foros provides advice on mergers and acquisitions and other corporate finance matters.

György Almásy

He published a very important article on the teller of the Kyrgyz epic of "Manas" about a farewell meeting between the Kyrgyz hero and king Manas with his two-month-old child, Semetei (the magazine Keleti Szemlé, 1911-12.) It included a Latin transcript of the Kyrgyz-language text of the episode.

Los Tarantos

The film is based on the play La historia de los Tarantos written by Alfredo Mañas, and inspired by Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

Manas County

The county seat is the old town of Manas (玛纳斯), located on the Manasi River just east of Shihezi.

Manas International Airport

The airport was constructed as a replacement for the old Bishkek airport that was located to the south of the city, and named after the Kyrgyz epic hero, Manas, at the suggestion of country's most prominent writer and intellectual, Chinghiz Aitmatov.

Manaschi

The Manas contain up to nearly five hundred thousand lines which makes it twenty times longer than Homer's Odyssey and Iliad combined

Music of Kyrgyzstan

Their music is typically heroic epics, such as the most famous story, the Manas epic (20 times longer than Homer's Odyssey), which is the patriotic tale of a warrior named Manas, and his descendants, who fight with the Chinese.

Nalbari railway station

Several express trains stops in this station, some of them are Alipur Duar Jn-Guwahati Passenger, Alipurduar Lumding Express, Guwahati-New Bongaigaon Jn Manas Rhino Passenger, Kamrup Express, Kanchenjunga Express, Brahmaputra Mail etc.

The Crick Crack Club

It features over 220 voices, including that of Hugh Lupton, TUUP, Sally Pomme Clayton, Ben Haggarty, Abbi Patrix and Laura Simms, as well as superb examples of some of the world's greatest surviving epic singing traditions such as Central Indian Pandavani, Rajasthani Pabuji Ki Phad, Kyrgyz Manas singing (singers of the epic of Manas), the work of Turkish Ashiks and Bangladeshi Palagan and Patuagan performers.


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