Kalash
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Kalasha or Kalash may refer to:
- Kalash people of Chitral, northern Pakistan
- Kalasha (religion)Kalasha (religion)Kalasha culture and belief system differs from the various ethnic groups surrounding them but is similar to that of the neighboring Nuristanis in northeast Afghanistan. The Kalash people are unique in their customs and religion. In the 1970s there were a number of forced conversions...
- Kalash language, also known as Kalasha-mondr
- Kalasha DeshKalasha DeshKaĺaśa Desh The Three Kalasha Valleys Bumburet, Rumbur and Birir are called Kalasha Desh in Kalasha Language, and also known as Kafiristan....
, their valleys
- Kalasha (religion)
- Nuristani people of Nuristan, Afghanistan
- Kalasha-ala languageKalasha-ala languageWaigali or Waigeli is a language spoken by the Kalasha of the Nuristan Province in a few villages in the central part of the Kunar Province of Afghanistan. The native name is Kalasa-Alâ or simply Kalasa...
, also known as Kalasa, Waigali, or Waigeli
- Kalasha-ala language
- KalashaKalashaKalasha, also spelled as Kalash and kalasa , is a metal pot with a large base and small mouth, large enough to hold a coconut. Sometimes "Kalasha" also refers to such a pot filled with water and topped with a coronet of mango leaves and a coconut...
(kalaśa), the Sanskrit for "pitcher, jar", a Hindu symbol - Kalasha, one of the Hindu units of measurementHindu units of measurementVedic and Puranic units of time span from the Paramáńu to the mahamanvantara . Its clearly given in Hindu Vedic knowledge that the creation and destruction of the universe is a cyclical process and the timespan of the universe is 311.04 trillion years...