Parva

Parva may refer to:

Place names in England

There are several locations where one settlement is named "Magna" and another nearby "Parva". In this context, magna and parva are the Latin terms for "great" and "little" respectively. Examples include Appleby Magna and Appleby Parva in Leicestershire, and Ash Magna and Ash Parva in Shropshire.

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Parva (food)

In the Paisa region of Colombia (Antioquia, Caldas, Risaralda and Quindio), parva refers to a wide variety of small baked goods and sweets that are used as quick snacks or morning meals, and are either sweet or savory. This type of food is usually accompanied with coffee, hot chocolate, or sweeter drinks like aguapanela. Examples of more savory parva foods include pan de queso, pandeyuca, buñuelos, and croissants. Savory examples of parva include red roll cake filled with guava (Spanish: rollo rojo), mojicones, roscones, meringue, tambourine, and cucas.

History

This name for this kind of food comes from the Yiddish "parve" which denotes foods that are neither meat nor dairy, which is used in the same way in Argentina and Latin American regions populated by Sephardis since 1492. It refers to cookies and lots of fresh meals made in the afternoon quickly with flour, such as chips and sweet pies. With the distribution of such foods, the term in known in other regions outside of Antioquia, Colombia.

Parva (novel)

Parva (Kannada: ಪರ್ವ, Epoch / Age) is a Kannada language novel written by S L Bhyrappa based on the Sanskrit epic, Mahabharata. It is a non-mythological retelling of the Mahabharata and is widely acclaimed as a modern classic. The story of the Mahabharata in Parva is narrated in the form of personal reflections of some of the principal characters of the epic. Parva is unique in terms of the complete absence of any episode that has the element of divine intervention found in the original.

Considered to be Bhyrappa's greatest work, Parva remains one of Bhyrappa's widely-debated and popular works.

Background

In an essay titled Parva Baredaddu (How I wrote Parva), Bhyrappa provides detailed information about how he wrote Parva.

Bhyrappa's friend, Dr. A Narayanappa initially urged the author to write his conception of the Mahabharata as a novel. The author recounts that he finalized the decision to write Parva during a tour in the Garhwal region of the Himalayas. He stayed at a village where polyandry was practiced. Further research revealed that the practice persisted in that region from the time of Draupadi. Bhyrappa recounts how this experience led him to briefly visit several places in North India mentioned in the original Mahabharata.