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The Uddhava Gita: The Final Teaching of Krishna Translated By Swami Ambikananda Saraswati (Editor) •Vachaspati Upadhyaya Publisher : Frances Lincoln,London 2000 Uddhava Gita (Sanskrit) (also referred to as Hamsa Gita) consists of Krishna's final discourse to Uddhava before Krishna draws his worldly '( lila) to completion. Though the Uddhava Gita is often published singularly as a stand-alone work, it is also evident in the Eleventh Canto of the Bhagavata Purana commencing from verse 40 section 6 through to the end of section 29, comprising total of 1100 'verses.

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India has added seven properties to its Tentative List for UNESCO World Heritage Sites. These seven are all under the Natural category: 1. Deccan Traps at Panchgani & Mahabaleshwar (Maharashtra) 2. Geological Heritage of St Mary’s Island Cluster (Udupi, Karnataka) 3. Meghalayan Age Caves (East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya) 4. Naga Hill Ophiolite (Kiphire, Nagaland) 5. Natural Heritage of Erra Matti Dibbalu (Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh) 6. Natural Heritage of Tirumala Hills (Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh) 7. Natural heritage of Varkala (Kerala) After this addition, India’s Tentative List has 69 properties in total: 49 Cultural, 3 Mixed, and 17 Natural.

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