3) Define Sexagesimal.
4) What is a mummy?
5) Define epic.
6) Name the three jewels of Jainism
7) What is Panchayati Raj?
8) State any four sources of income of the village Panchayat
Answers
3) Sexagesimal (also known as base 60 or sexagenary) is a numeral system with sixty as its base. It originated with the ancient Sumerians in the 3rd millennium BC, was passed down to the ancient Babylonians, and is still used—in a modified form—for measuring time, angles, and geographic coordinates.
4) A mummy is a person or animal whose body has been dried or otherwise preserved after death.
5) An epic poem, epic, or epopee is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealings ...
6) This article looks at The Three Jewels of Jainism: right faith, right knowledge and right conduct
7) Panchayati Raj is the local self-government of villages in rural India as opposed to urban and suburban municipalities, this system was introduced by a constitutional amendment in 1992. Although it is based upon the historical panchayat system of the Indian subcontinent.
8) Sources of funds for gram panchayat : Land revenue , tax on toddy ( specifically in South India , tax on vehicles , tax on the industries which are located in geographical boundaries of the village , toll tax , festival tax .