UJJAIN

oojīnˈ, ooˈjīn, city (1991 pop. 362,633), Madhya Pradesh state, central India, on the Sipra River. Many pilgrims visit Ujjain, which Hindus consider one of the holiest places in India. The town is comparatively new, but nearby is a ruined ancient city, which may have been inhabited in the late 2d millennium b.c. This city has been identified as the capital of the semilegendary kingdom of Avanti, which was described in Buddhist chronicles as one of the greatest Indian states. Later it was the central city of the Malwa kingdoms, and in the 8th cent. a.d. it became the center of Sanskrit learning. Muslims captured the city in 1235 and destroyed most of the Hindu temples. Akbar conquered it in 1562, and not until it became (c.1750) part of Gwalior was Ujjain restored to Hindu control. Today Ujjain is a district administrative headquarters and the seat of Vikram Univ. It has an agricultural and textile market; manufactures include metalware, strawboard, batteries, tile, confectionery, and hosiery.

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Environmentalism and the Mass Media: The North--South Divide
Book by Hermann Kulke, Dietmar Rothermund; Routledge, 1997
...region which was called Dakshina Koshala in ancient times; Vidarbha, the area around present Nagpur; the Malwa Plateau around Ujjain which was called Avanti in antiquity; and finally the Rajput country between Jaipur and Udaipur. Of course, there have been...
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India: A Short Cultural History
Book by H. G. Rawlinson; Frederick A. Praeger, 1952
Subjects: India--Civilization, India--History
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A History of India
Book by Hermann Kulke, Dietmar Rothermund; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: India--History
...region which was called Dakshina Koshala in ancient times; Vidarbha, the area around present Nagpur; the Malwa plateau around Ujjain which was called Avanti in antiquity; and finally the Rajput country between Jaipur and Udaipur. Of course, there have been...
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A History of India
Book by Hermann Kulke, Dietmar Rothermund; Routledge, 1998
Subjects: India--History
...region which was called Dakshina Koshala in ancient times; Vidarbha, the area around present Nagpur; the Malwa Plateau around Ujjain which was called Avanti in antiquity; and finally the Rajput country between Jaipur and Udaipur. Of course, there have been...
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The Cambridge Shorter History of India
Book by J. Allan, T. Wolseley Haig, H. H. Dodwell; Cambridge University Press, 1934
Subjects: India--History
...corresponding to the modern Mulwu, seems to have always been ruled by a king; little is known of its earlier history. Its capital was Ujjain and the earliest dynasty seems to have been the Haihayas. A change of dynasty must have taken place in the sixth century...
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Indian Beads: A Cultural and Technological Study; Distinctive Beads in Ancient India; Amulets and Pendants in Ancient Maharashtra
Journal article by Jr. Peter Francis; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 42, 2003
Subjects: Amulets and Pendants in Ancient Maharashtra (Book)--Reviews, Distinctive Beads in Ancient India (Book)--Reviews, Indian Beads: A Cultural and Technological Study (Book)--Reviews
...as the city did not then exist. Ozene (Ujjain) was the beadmaking center. Barygaza...Hastinapura, Ujjain, Pataliputra, Rajghat...Hastinapura, Ujjain, Pataliputra, Rajghat...
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Switching Heads and Cultures: Transformation of an Indian Myth by Thomas Mann and Girish Karnad
Journal article by Anand Mahadevan; Comparative Literature, Vol. 54, 2002
Subjects: Drama, India, Karnad, Girish, Literary criticism, Mann, Thomas (1875-1955), Mythology, Novels
...jealousy. A few months into the marriage, the three travel to Ujjain to a fair. On the way, they rest between two temples, one devoted...the theatrical device through which Padmini sends Devadatta to Ujjain, so she can use his absence to sneak away with the child to...
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Shi'ism in Contemporary India: the Badri-vakili Controversy among Indian Isma'ilis
Journal article by Yoginder Sikand; The Muslim World, Vol. 93, 2003
Subjects: Community property, Control, Courts, Disputes, India, Islam, Muslims
...protection. At the same time, Badris from Nagpur, Hyderabad, Ujjain and Vishakhapatanam sent an urgent message to the Commissioner...forbidden."36 Likewise, Maulvi Sana-ur-Rahman, Chief Qazi of Ujjain, declared that the Vakilis, far from being Muslims, were "in...
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Context, Content, and Composition: Questions of Intended Meaning and the Asokan Edicts
Journal article by Namita Sugandhi; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 42, 2003
Subjects: Asoka, King of Magadha--Research, Deccan (India)--History, Deccan (India)--Research, Inscriptions--Research
...of the Mauryan polity into provinces with capitals at Taxila, Ujjain, Tosali (Dhauli), and Suvarnagiri, though plausible and often...then later in the edict, it is said that princes (Kumale) from Ujjain and Taxila will also send out Mahamatras every five years. MRE...
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Hindu Varanasi
Journal article by Wilbert M. Gesler, Margaret Pierce; The Geographical Review, Vol. 90, 2000
...principal Hindu gods: Ayodhya is the capital of Lord Rama; Matura is the birthplace of Krishna; Haridwar is the gate of the Ganges; Ujjain is sacred to Shiva; Dwarka is the capital of Krishna; Kanchi is sacred to both Vishnu and Shiva; and Varanasi is the city of...
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Thinking the Unthinkable: Can We Imagine a Nuclear War? the Novelist Philip Kerr Returns to an Invented Scenario That Now Seems All Too Real
Magazine article by Philip Kerr; New Statesman, Vol. 131, June 10, 2002
Subjects: India--Relations with Pakistan, Nuclear warfare--Evaluation, Pakistan--Relations with India
...By the time three squadrons of Pakistani Air Force F-16s were flying to their targets of Bombay, Pune, Indore, Surat, Bhopal, Ujjain and Nashik, more than four million Indians were already dead. Few of the F-16s reached their targets, shot down by air-to...
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The Simple Stage - Reviving India's Street Theater
Magazine article by Jane Schreibman; World and I, Vol. 15, July 2000
Subjects: India, Popular culture, Street theater--Analysis
...performers, and each performs a different story. The Jogis are a caste of rural farmers who perform the stories of Gopi Chand of Ujjain and his uncle Bhartrinari from Bengal, kings who gave up their kingdoms for lives as ascetics. Many Jogis are initiated as ascetics...
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India's Miracle City
Magazine article by Ian Jackson; Geographical, Vol. 73, April 2001
Subjects: Buildings, Temporary--Design and construction, City planning--Management, Fasts and feasts--Hinduism, Ganges River--Religious aspects, Rivers--Religious aspects
...connections and post offices. The Kumbh Mela is held every three years in one of four different places: Allahabad, Haridwar, Ujjain and Nasik, and every 12 years it returns to the same spot. Because of a unique alignment of the sun, moon and Jupiter which...
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Seeing, Being Seen, and Not Being Seen: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Layers of Looking at the Kumbh Mela
Magazine article by Kama Maclean; Cross Currents, Vol. 59, September 2009
Subjects: Festivals--Reports, Kumbha Mela--2007 AD, Kumbha Mela--Reports
...represent the event. The Kumbh Mela The Kumbh Mela is a series of festivals that rotate between the Indian holy cities of Haridwar, Ujjain, Nasik, and Allahabad (Prayag); the festival occurs in each of these cities on a cyclic basis, over a twelve-year period. Of...


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Ujjain
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
UJJAIN oojin , oo jin, city (1991 pop. 362,633), Madhya Pradesh...central India, on the Sipra River. Many pilgrims visit Ujjain, which Hindus consider one of the holiest places in India...1562, and not until it became (c.1750) part of Gwalior was Ujjain restored to Hindu control. Today Ujjain is a district administrative...
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Bhaskara
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the prices of slaves, he gives some indication of economic conditions in his day. He was at the head of the observatory at Ujjain . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All...
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Gupta
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Deccan. The third and greatest of the Guptas, Chandragupta II (reigned c.380 c.414), further expanded the kingdom to include Ujjain. His reign, vividly described in the writings of Fa Hsien, a Chinese Buddhist pilgrim, was marked by prosperity throughout the...


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