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Sundari or Sundari Nanda was the younger half-sister of Buddha and sister of Nanda. She was the child of King Suddhodana and Buddha's aunt Maha Pajapati Gotami. She, like other members of her family, became a Bhikkhuni (see also: Nanda (Buddhist nun)) and an Arahant, like her brother Nanda.
The sundari or sundri is a double reed wind instrument. It has 7 to 9 holes and is made of shisam on lathe.
The method of playing the sundari is similar to that of playing the shehnai. It is played in medium and fast tempo; slow tempo pieces are not possible in sundari because it is a very short and tiny instrument.
Sundari was a Tamil language weekly newspaper in Sri Lanka published by Independent Newspapers Limited, part of M. D. Gunasena & Company. It was founded on 1973 and was published from Colombo. It had an average circulation of 1,000 in 1973.
By 1973/74 the Independent Newspapers publications had become vocal critics of Sirimavo Bandaranaike's government. The government sealed Independent Newspapers' presses and closed it down on 19 April 1974 using the Emergency (Defence) Regulations. Independent Newspapers resumed publication on 30 March 1977 but the three year closure had taken its toll. Faced financial problems Independent Newspapers and its various publications closed down on 26 December 1990.
Usage examples of "sundari".
This is Sundari Devi, our princess, not to be spoken of in the same breath with a wandering soldier, scholar, or whatever you call yourself.
Came back to Sundari a couple months after you went for Kildun Aalda, Tib.
Singing cheerfully, if what she was doing could be called singing, bird warbles and animal calls and songs she'd picked up partying with Briony in Sundari Pit, she helped Skeen inflate the shelter, knock in stakes and chain it down.
And she'd picked up several offers of employment from people she'd met in Sundari Pit.
For example (as a companion piece to the story of the Baudi twins) let me mention a Delhi beggar‑girl called Sundari, who was born in a street behind the General Post Office, not far from the rooftop on which Amina Sinai had listened to Ramram Seth, and whose beauty was so intense that within moments of her birth it succeeded in blinding her mother and the neighbouring women who had been assisting at her delivery.
For some time after that Sundari was obliged to have a rag placed across her face.
At the time when I became aware of her, Sundari was earning a healthy living, because nobody who looked at her could fail to pity a girl who had clearly once been too beautiful to look at and was now so cruelly disfigured.
Did much‑mutilated no‑longer‑Snotnose, as broken a member of the Midnight Children's Conference as the knife‑scarred beggar‑girl Sundari, fall in love with the new wholeness of his sibling?
In this passage Beal makes Sundari to be the name of the murdered person (a harlot).