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Gandhi's Three Monkeys is a series of sculptures created in 2008 by Indian artist Subodh Gupta that portrays three heads in different types of military headgear. The sculptures recall a visual metaphor from India's famous champion of peace, Mahatma Gandhi, of the "Three wise monkeys", representing the principle "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil".
The tufted gray langur ( Semnopithecus priam ), also known as Madras gray langur, and Coromandel sacred langur, is an Old World monkey, one of the species of langurs. This, like other gray langurs, is mainly a leaf-eating monkey. It is found in southeast India and Sri Lanka. [1] It is one of three Semnopithecus species named after characters ...
CodeMonkey (software) Jonathan Schor, Ido Schor and Yishai Pinchover. CodeMonkey is an educational computer coding environment that allows beginners to learn computer programming concepts and languages. [ 2][ 3][ 4] CodeMonkey is intended for students ages 6–14. Students learn text-based coding on languages like Python, Blockly and ...
"Mind-monkey" (心猿) is an exemplary animal metaphor.Some figures of speech are cross-linguistically common, verging upon linguistic universals; many languages use "monkey" or "ape" words to mean "mimic", for instance, Italian scimmiottare "to mock; to mimic" < scimmia "monkey; ape", Japanese sarumane (猿真似 [lit. "monkey imitation"] "copycat; superficial imitation"), and English monkey ...
Tōshō-gū shrine stable. The source that popularized this pictorial maxim is a 17th-century carving over a door of a stable of the Tōshō-gū shrine in Nikkō, Japan.The carvings at Tōshō-gū Shrine were carved by Hidari Jingoro, and are believed to have incorporated Confucius’ Code of Conduct, using the monkey as a way to depict man’s life cycle.
Hari. Hari ( Sanskrit: हरि) is among the primary epithets of the Hindu preserver deity Vishnu, meaning 'the one who takes away' (sins). [1] It refers to the one who removes darkness and illusion, the one who removes all obstacles to spiritual progress. The name Hari also appears as the 650th name of Vishnu in the Vishnu Sahasranama of the ...
Vanara. In Hinduism, Vanara ( Sanskrit: वानर, lit. 'forest-dwellers') [1] are either monkeys, apes, [2] or a race of forest-dwelling people. [1] In the epic the Ramayana, the Vanaras help Rama defeat Ravana. They are generally depicted as humanoid apes, or human-like beings.
v. t. e. The Devanagari numeralsare the symbols used to write numbers in the Devanagariscript, predominantly used for northern Indian languages. They are used to write decimalnumbers, instead of the Western Arabic numerals. Table. [edit] Modern.