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The Manu-smriti ("Laws of Manu"), generally thought to have been compiled about 100 ce, was based upon the ancient Hindu concept of dharma (generally, the religious and moral law governing individual conduct).

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Based upon the aforementioned ancient traditions, whose effects are substantiated by recent scientific studies, I decided to introduce a five-minute mindfulness meditation to the beginning of most courses that I teach at San Diego City College.

The republicans, like Sir Henry Vane the Younger, hoped to create a government based upon the model of ancient Rome and modern Venice.

1308 Huzhou, China 1385 Wang Meng, Wade-Giles romanization Wang Meng (born 1308, Wuxing [now Huzhou], Zhejiang province, China died 1385), Chinese painter who is placed among the group later known as the Four Masters of the Yuan dynasty (1206 1368), although, being in the second generation of that group, he had a more personal style that was less based upon the emulation of ancient masters.

Comedies improvised from scenarios based upon the domestic dramas of the ancient Roman comic playwrights Plautus (c. 254 184 bce) and Terence (c. 195 c. 159 bce) and upon situations drawn from anonymous ancient Roman mimes flourished under the title of commedia dell'arte.

These fashions were supposedly based upon the Classical dress of ancient Greece.

He developed a personal style of landscape painting that was based upon the emulation of both ancient and contemporary masters.

All of them, however, are based upon the common foundations of ancient Roman law, Christian theology and canon law, feudal law, and medieval Germanic law.

Several ancient myths were based upon the natural elements of the turbulent and ever changing sea surrounding Orkney, but the stories of the two spirits are among the oldest legends on the islands.

Malevolent creatures served to provide explanations for incidents simple islanders could not otherwise understand; many ancient myths were based upon the natural elements of the turbulent and ever changing sea surrounding Orkney.

The name "Pharnavaz" is also an illustrative example with its root par- being based upon the Persian farnah, the divine radiance believed by the ancient Iranians to mark a legitimate dynast (cf. khvarenah).

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