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MS Dhoni

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MS DHONI  Mahendra Singh Dhoni  (   pronunciation   ; commonly known as  MS Dhoni ; born 7 July 1981) is an  Indian  cricketer  who  captained  the  Indian team  in limited-overs formats from September 2007 to 4th of January 2017 and in  Test cricket  ket  from 2008 to 28th of December 2014. An attacking right-handed middle-order batsman and wicket  keeper , he is widely regarded as one of the greatest finishers in limited-overs cricket.  He is also regarded to be one of the best wicket-keepers in world cricket and is known to have very fast hands. He  made his  One Day International (ODI) debut in December 2004 against Banglades h , and played his first Test a year later against Sri lanka Dhoni holds numerous captaincy records such as most wins by an Indian captain in Tests and ODIs, and most back-to-back wins by an Indian captain in ODIs. He took over the ODI captaincy from  Rahul Dravid  in 2007 and led the team to its first-ever bilateral ODI series wins in Sri Lanka and

Charaka Samhita ( Father of Ayurveda )

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CHARAKA SAMHITA Charaka  ( Sanskrit   चरक ) (~6th – 2nd century BCE ] ) was one                                 of the principal contributors to  Ayurveda , a system of medicine and lifestyle developed in Ancient India  . He is famous for authoring the medical treatise, the  Charaka Samhita . Charaka was resident of Kapisthala (probably the place is now known as (Kapurthala ) village situated between Iravati (Ravi River ) and Chandrabagha (Chenab River) rivers  in Panchanada (punjab) . Panchanada was name of Punjab in Mahabharata. He is well known as the "Indian father of medicine". The Charaka and Ayurveda The term Charaka is a label said to apply to "wandering scholars" or "wandering physicians". According to Charaka's translations, health and disease are not predetermined and life may be prolonged by human effort and attention to lifestyle. As per Indian heritage and Ayurvedic system, prevention of all types of diseases have a more p

Sachin Tendulkar

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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar  ( / ˌ s ə tʃ ɪ n   t ɛ n ˈ d uː l k ər / ;  Hindi / Marathi :  सचिन तेंडुलकर ;  born 24 April 1973) is a former  Indian   cricketer  and  captain , widely regarded as one of the greatest  batsmen  of all time. [4]  He took up cricket at the age of eleven, made his  Test debut on 15 November 1989 against  Pakistan in  Karachi  at the age of sixteen, and went on to represent  Mumbai  domestically and  India internationally for close to twenty-four years. He is the only player to have  scored one hundred international centuries , the first batsman to score a  double century  in a  One Day International , the holder of the record for the number of runs in both  ODI  and  Test cricket, and the only player to complete more than 30,000  runs  in  international cricket . [5] Tendulkar was born at Nirmal Nursing Home in  Dadar ,  Bombay  on 24 April 1973 in a  Maharashtrian  family. [26]  His father,  Ramesh Tendulkar , was a well-known  Marathi  novelist and