Give an account of different names given to the indian sub continent
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There are different names of India
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There are different names of India but most of us are familiar with the three names : India, Bharat and Hindustan.
The ancient name of India was Aja Nabha Varsha. (Aja means Brahma. Nabha means central portion. Varsha means Country.) Bharata (Bha means light and knowledge. Rata means devoted to light as against darkness.) According to methodologies, the name Bharat is derived from king Bharat, the son of Dushyanta and Shakuntala. He was the legendary emperor and the founder of the bharat dynasty ancestor of the Pandavas and the kauravas in the Sanskrit epic Mahabharat.
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