Vande Mataram "mātár-" (Sanskrit), "méter" (Greek), "mâter" (Latin) which mean "mother". The first two verses of "Vande Mataram" adopted as the "National Song" read as follows: The complete original lyrics of the "Vande Mataram" is available at . The first translation of Bankim Chandra Chatterji's novel "Anandamath", including the poem "Vande Mataram", into English was by Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta, with the fifth edition published in 1906 titled "The Abbey of Bliss". Here is the translation in prose of the above two stanzas rendered by Sri Aurobindo Ghosh. This has also been adopted by the Government of India's national portal. The original "Vande
Bric Gettina Bric Gettina Bric Gettina is a 1025 metres high mountain in the Ligurian Prealps (part of the Ligurian Alps) in Italy. The mountain is located in the province of Savona, in Liguria. In the SOIUSA ("International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps") it gives the name to the "Costiera del Bric Gettina", a long ridge which, starting from the main chain of the Alps at monte Settepani, heads south-east towards the Ligurian Sea, dividing the valleys Pora and Maremola. On the slopes of Bric Gettina looking towards Pora Valley during the Renaissance period some silver mines have been exploited. On