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Gond may refer to:
- Gondi people of central India
- Gond (Forgotten Realms), fictional deity in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
- Gonds, a race in The Krotons, a serial in the television series Doctor Who
Gond is a fictional deity in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Gond is the deity of invention: he transforms ideas into form and inspires mortals to create new things. He cares only for the act of creation and pays no heed to the consequences of his inventions. While humans know him as Gond, some gnomes who worship him know him as Nebelun. An aspect of Gond is worshipped in Durpar, Estagund, and Var the Golden, where he is called Zionil. Worshippers of Gond are known as Gondar.
This is an India musical raga (composition) that appears in the Sikh tradition from northern India and is part of the Guru Granth Sahib. Every raga has a strict set of rules which govern the number of notes that can be used; which notes can be used; and their interplay that has to be adhered to for the composition of a tune.
In the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy Granth (book) there are a total of 31 raga compositions and this raga is the seventeenth raga to appear in the series. The composition in this raga appear on a total of 17 pages from page numbers ''' 859 to 876 '''.
The Ragmala records Gaund and Gund as putras (sons) of Sri Raga, but does not give Gond. The possibility exists that Gond is a regional raga derived from that group of ragas with similar names and characterized by phrases from other ragas e.g. Bilaval, Kanara and Malar. Such names as Gaunda, Gand, Gounda, Gaundi, Goundgiri, and Gunda appear in classifications from the 11th to the 17th centuries. For those still known today (Gaudi, Goundgiri, and Goud) performance rules are obscure. Performance time is late afternoon or early evening and the mood is contemplative and dignified. Gond was used by Guru Ram Das and Guru Arjan (29 hymns). The texts ask man to depend solely on the Lord for all benefits since it is He who has given him all his blessings.
The following represents the order of notes that can be used on the ascending and descending phase of the composition and the primary and secondary notes:
- Aroh: Sa Re Ga Ma, Pa Dha Ni Dha Ni Sa
- Avroh: Sa Ni Dha Ni Dha Pa, Ma Ga, Re Sa
- Pakar: Re Ga Ma, Pa Ma, Ma Pa Ni Dha Ni Dha Ni Sa, Ni Dha Ni Pa, Dha Ma
- Vadi: Sa
- Samvadi: Ma
Usage examples of "gond".
Central India, the Kols, Gonds, Bhils, and others which have certain characteristics of the Mongolian, but with skins almost as dark as the Negro, and the full eye of the Caucasian.
The latter contains the Oraons, Malers, Paharis of Rajamahal, Gonds and Kands.
Dana Da was neither Finn, Chin, Bhil, Bengali, Lap, Nair, Gond, Romaney, Magh, Bokhariot, Kurd, Armenian, Levantine, Jew, Persian, Punjabi, Madrasi, Parsee, nor anything else known to ethnologists.
The name of the hidden city of King Turgon was devised by him in Quenya as Ondolindë (Quenya ondo= Sindarin gond, and lindë 'singing, song').