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Indus

river in Asia, from Sanskrit sindhu "river." The southern constellation, created 1603 by Bayer, represents "an Indian," not the river.

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Indus (constellation)

Indus is a constellation in the southern sky created in the late sixteenth century.

Indus (disambiguation)

The Indus is a river in Pakistan.

Indus may also refer to:

  • Indus script, an ancient script of the Indus Valley Civilization
  • Indus (constellation), a southern constellation
  • Indus Airways, a domestic air carrier, based in Delhi, India
  • INtelligent Data Understanding System or INDUS, a research project of the University of Iowa
  • IndUS Aviation, a Texas-based manufacturer of light sport aircraft
  • Indus TV, a TV channel based in Pakistan
  • Indus Media Group, a media group based in Pakistan
  • , a number of steamships with this name

  • Indas or Indus, a town in Bankura, West Bengal, India
  • Ng Tung River or River Indus, a river in Hong Kong
  • "Indus", a song by Dead Can Dance from Spiritchaser
  • Indus, Alberta, a village in Canada just east of Calgary
Indus (Chinese astronomy)

The modern constellation Indus is not included in the Three Enclosures and Twenty-Eight Mansions system of traditional Chinese uranography because its stars are too far south for observers in China to know about them prior to the introduction of Western star charts. Based on the work of Xu Guangqi and the German Jesuit missionary Johann Adam Schall von Bell in the late Ming Dynasty, this constellation has been classified as one of the 23 Southern Asterisms (近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngōu) under the name Persia (波斯, Bōsī).

The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 印第安座 (yìn dì ān zuò), meaning "the Indian constellation".

Usage examples of "indus".

But with the final avatara of Lord Vishnu, that of Kalian, soma was again found by a great guru who deciphered the ancient writings of Mohenjo-Daro, in the Indus valley of Mother Earth.

Sulla was also the subject of a prophecy by a famous Chaldaean seer: he would be the greatest man between Oceanus Atlanticus and the Indus River, and would die at the height of his fame and prosperity.

She remembered the digs around Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, in the Indus Valley, and the careful, patient native laborersthe painstaking foremen, the pickmen and spademen, the long files of basketmen carrying away the earth.

Besides purification, the holy men of Harappa and the Indus valley practised yoga and renunciation of the world.

Anywhere below here and Multan, the Malwa now have fortifications all along the Indus.

By his arms, the Gasnevides were expelled from the eastern kingdoms of Persia, and gradually driven to the banks of the Indus, in search of a softer and more wealthy conquest.

On most of the sectors civilization began in the valleys of the Nile and Tigris-Euphrates, or on the Indus and Yangtze.

Near East, with the sudden appearance and brilliant victories of the Aryan Persians over every nation of the ancient world save Greece, from the Bosporus and Upper Nile to the Indus.

In the summers, even the cool summers they had been having lately, the extensive inshore shallows of the sea grew as warm as blood, and dolphins - adapted from Terran river dolphins like the baiji from China, or the boto from the Amazon, or the susu from the Ganges, or the bhulan from the Indus - sported just off the beach.

Water control systems also appear to have been associated with centralized political organization in some other areas of the world, including the Indus Valley of the Indian subcontinent, the Yellow and Yangtze Valleys of China, the Maya lowlands of Mesoamerica, and the coastal desert of Peru.

All of the likely or possible independent inventions of writing (in Sumer, Mexico, China, and Egypt), and all of the early adaptations of those invented systems (for example, those in Crete, Iran, Turkey, the Indus Valley, and the Maya area), involved socially stratified societies with complex and centralized political institutions, whose necessary relation to food production we shall explore in a later chapter.

But the Daddies were not paying the slightest attention to the little group in the square and, greatly relieved, they turned back to the Indus Tree.

Only later did domesticates derived from indigenous species of the Indian subcontinent, such as humped cattle and sesame, appear in Indus Valley farming communities.

From the Indus to the Euphrates, the East was convulsed by the quarrel of the white and the black factions: the Abbassides were most frequently victorious.

From the Indus to the Euphrates, the East was convulsed by the quarrel of the white and the black factions: the Abbassides were most frequently victorious.