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ˈɪn dəsin·dus
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Princeton's WordNet
Indusnoun
a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Tucana
Indus, Indus Rivernoun
an Asian river that rises in Tibet and flows through northern India and then southwest through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea
"the valley of the Indus was the site of an early civilization"
Wikipedia
Indus
The Indus (Sanskrit: Sindhu; IN-dəs) is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia. The 3,120 km (1,940 mi) river rises in mountain springs northeast of Mount Kailash in Western Tibet, flows northwest through the disputed region of Kashmir, bends sharply to the left after the Nanga Parbat massif, and flows south-by-southwest through Pakistan, before emptying into the Arabian Sea near the port city of Karachi.The river has a total drainage area of circa 1,120,000 km2 (430,000 sq mi). Its estimated annual flow is around 243 km3 (58 cu mi), making it one of the 50 largest rivers in the world in terms of average annual flow. Its left-bank tributary in Ladakh is the Zanskar River, and its left-bank tributary in the plains is the Panjnad River which is formed by the successive confluences of the five Punjab rivers, namely the Chenab, Jhelum, Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej rivers. Its principal right-bank tributaries are the Shyok, Gilgit, Kabul, Kurram, and Gomal rivers. Beginning in a mountain spring and fed with glaciers and rivers in the Himalayan, Karakoram, and Hindu Kush ranges, the river supports the ecosystems of temperate forests, plains, and arid countryside. The northern part of the Indus Valley, with its tributaries, forms the Punjab region of South Asia, while the lower course of the river ends in a large delta in the southern Sindh province of Pakistan. The river has historically been important to many cultures of the region. The 3rd millennium BCE saw the rise of Indus Valley Civilisation, a major urban civilization of the Bronze Age. During the 2nd millennium BCE, the Punjab region was mentioned in the Rigveda hymns as Sapta Sindhu and in the Avesta religious texts as Saptha Hindu (both terms meaning "seven rivers"). Early historical kingdoms that arose in the Indus Valley include Gandhāra, and the Ror dynasty of Sauvīra. The Indus River came into the knowledge of the Western world early in the classical period, when King Darius of Persia sent his Greek subject Scylax of Caryanda to explore the river, c. 515 BCE.
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indus
The Indus is a major river in Asia that flows through China, India, and Pakistan. It is one of the longest rivers in the world and serves as a key water source for the regions it traverses. However, "Indus" can also refer to the Indus Valley Civilization which was one of the world's earliest urban civilizations in the northeastern Indian subcontinent, around the start of the Bronze Age. Additionally, Indus is a constellation in the southern sky, originally named by Dutch astronomer Petrus Plancius in the 16th century. The name is Latin for "Indian". The actual definition will depend on the context in which the term "Indus" is being used.
Wikidata
Indus
Indus is a constellation in the southern sky. Created in the late sixteenth century, it represents an Indian, a word that could refer at the time to any native of Asia or the Americas.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Indus
a great river of India, 1800 m. long; rises in Thibet, on the N. of the Himalayas, flows NW. through Cashmere, then SW. through the Punjab and Sind to the sea; its upper course is through great gorges and very rapid, but after the entrance of the Kabul River its way lies through arid plains, and it is navigable; after receiving the Panjnad its volume decreases through evaporation and the sinking of some of the many streams into which it divides in the sand; on one of the branches of the delta stands the thriving port of Kurrachee.
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dinus
nidus
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of indus in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of indus in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of indus in a Sentence
About two-thirds to three-fourths of the ancestry of all modern South Asians comes from a population group related to that of this Indus Valley individual.
Pakistan lacks a water recharge system in the area, as we cannot get water from the Sutlej and Beas rivers under the Indus Water Treaty with India.
So whatever we do have from cemeteries is not representative of the ancient populations of the Indus cities, but only of one part of one community living in these cities.
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- indusGerman
- indusFrench
- सिंधुHindi
- indusIndonesian
- IndusItalian
- indusLatin
- indusDutch
- indusPortuguese
- சிந்துTamil
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