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Dasanga Lepa

Dasanga Lepa (Dashanga Lepa), a classical Ayurvedic topical paste of ten herbs (Shirisha, Yashtimadhu, Tagara, Haridra, Kushtha, and others), used for inflammation, skin disease, and wounds; rare skin-rash ADR reported.

Dasanglu Pul

Dasanglu Pul is an Indian BJP politician who has represented Hayuliang in the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly since 2016 and became a state cabinet minister in 2024.

Dasani

Dasani is The Coca-Cola Company's purified bottled water brand, launched 1999, made from municipal water by reverse osmosis with added magnesium sulfate and potassium chloride; withdrawn from the UK in 2004 over bromate.

Dasara (film)

Dasara (దసరా) is a 2023 Telugu action drama, Srikanth Odela's directorial debut starring Nani, Keerthy Suresh, and Dheekshith Shetty, set in 1990s Veerlapally near the Singareni coal mines, released 30 March 2023 in five languages.

Dasarathi Satakamu

Dasarathi Satakamu (దాశరథీ శతకము) is a 17th-century Telugu devotional shataka in praise of Rama, composed by Kancherla Gopanna, the saint-poet known as Bhakta Ramadasu of Bhadrachalam.

Dasari Arun Kumar (దాసరి అరుణ్ కుమార్)

Dasari Arun Kumar (దాసరి అరుణ్ కుమార్) is a Telugu film actor, son of director Dasari Narayana Rao; debuted in Greeku Veerudu (1998), later villain and supporting roles.

Dasari Narayana Rao

Dasari Narayana Rao (దాసరి నారాయణ రావు), Darsaka Ratna, Telugu film director, producer, writer and politician; directed a record ~148-151 films, founded Udayam daily, Rajya Sabha MP 2000-2012 and Union Minister of State for Coal and Mines 2004-2008; died 30 May 2017.

Daśarūpaka

Dasharupaka (Daśarūpaka, दशरूपक), a 10th-century Sanskrit treatise on dramaturgy by Dhanañjaya, condenses Bharata's Natyashastra into four chapters describing the ten principal forms of classical Sanskrit drama.

Dasatinib

Dasatinib (Sprycel, BMS-354825) is an oral dual Abl/Src tyrosine kinase inhibitor approved in 2006 for Ph+ CML and Ph+ ALL; 100 mg once daily first-line, active against most imatinib-resistant mutations except T315I.

Dasavathaaram (தசாவதாரம்)

Dasavathaaram (தசாவதாரம்) is a 2008 Tamil sci-fi action film directed by K.S. Ravikumar, starring Kamal Haasan in ten roles, with Asin and Mallika Sherawat; released 13 June 2008 on about 1,000 prints and among 2008's top grossers.

Dasbodh

Dasbodh (दासबोध) is a 17th-century Marathi spiritual and practical-instruction text of about 7,751 ovi verses composed by the saint Samarth Ramdas, the principal scripture of the Ramdasi tradition.

Dascha Polanco

Dascha Polanco, Dominican American actress, plays Dayanara "Daya" Diaz on Netflix's Orange Is the New Black; credits include Joy, Samaritan, and In the Heights; Lupe Award 2015.

Dascusa

Dascusa, a Roman fort on the Euphrates in Cappadocia, listed in the Antonine Itinerary 50 Roman miles from Melitene; founded under Claudius, it was among the earliest garrisons of Rome's Euphrates frontier.

Dascylus (father of Gyges)

Dascylus is the father of Gyges, the bodyguard who seized the throne of Sardis and founded the Mermnad dynasty of Lydia, known only from a single clause in Herodotus.

Dasein

Dasein (German: being-there, ordinary meaning "existence") is Heidegger's term in Being and Time (1927) for the entity humans are, defined by understanding of being, being-in-the-world, care, and temporality.

Daseke

Daseke was a North American flatbed and specialized trucking company founded by Don Daseke in 2008, serving industrial customers until its 2024 acquisition by TFI International.

Dash

The dash (punctuation): en dash (–, U+2013) marks ranges; em dash (—, U+2014) marks breaks in thought; both distinct from the hyphen. Style guides disagree on spacing, and em dash frequency rose in AI-era text.

Dash (boutique)

Dash (DASH), the boutique chain founded in 2006 by Kim, Kourtney, and Khloé Kardashian in Calabasas, expanded to Miami and New York, featured on their reality shows, and closed in 2018.

Dash (rapper)

Da$H (Darien Corey Dash Jr., born 1992) is an American rapper from Hackensack, New Jersey, nephew of Damon Dash, A$AP Mob affiliate, H'z Global member with RetcH, known for V.I.C.E.S. (2013) and Fetti.

Dash & Lily

Dash & Lily is a 2020 Netflix holiday romantic comedy series, 8 episodes, created by Joe Tracz from Rachel Cohn and David Levithan's novel, starring Austin Abrams and Midori Francis; canceled after one season in October 2021.

Dash Berlin

Dash Berlin: Dutch trance project from The Hague formed by producers Eelke Kalberg and Sebastiaan Molijn with DJ Jeffrey Sutorius; hit "Till the Sky Falls Down", DJ Mag #7 in 2012, later a trademark split into competing lineups.

Dash Daniels

Dash Daniels (born 2007, Bendigo) is an Australian NBL guard, younger brother of Dyson Daniels; Next Stars signee with Melbourne United in NBL26 at 17, 2025 FIBA Asia Cup gold medalist, projected 2026 NBA first-round pick.

DASH diet

DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension): NHLBI-developed eating plan rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat dairy, sodium 2,300 or 1,500 mg/day, lowering blood pressure 5.5/3.0 mm Hg in the original 1997 trial.

Dash Dolls

Dash Dolls is an E! reality series, a Keeping Up with the Kardashians spin-off premiering September 20, 2015, following employees of the Kardashian sisters' DASH boutique, co-managed by twins Malika Haqq and Khadijah Haqq McCray.

Dash Mihok

Dash Mihok (Dashiell Raymond Mihok, born 1974) is an American character actor, Bunchy Donovan on Ray Donovan (2013–2020), Tourette syndrome advocate, TAA board member, and founder of the virtual production company Sigmatic.

Dash Snow

Dash Snow (Dashiell A. Snow) was an American photographer and collage artist who documented New York's downtown scene; he died of a drug overdose in 2009, aged 27.

Dash0

Dash0 is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform founded in 2023 by Instana founder Mirko Novakovic and headquartered in New York City, charging by overall data volume.

Dasha (singer)

Dasha (Anna Dasha Novotny, born 2000, San Luis Obispo) is an American country-pop singer-songwriter whose viral TikTok line-dance hit "Austin (Boots Stop Workin')" (2023) led to a Warner Records deal, the album What Happens Now?, and a billion-stream milestone.

Dasha (दशा) (astrology)

Dasha (दशा, Sanskrit for "period" or "state") is a Vedic astrology system dividing a life into sequential planetary periods; the best-known, Vimshottari Dasha, spans 120 years and begins from the Moon's nakshatra at birth.

Dasha Nekrasova

Dasha Nekrasova (Дарья Дмитриевна Некрасова, born 1991, Minsk) is a Belarusian-American actress, director, and Red Scare podcast co-host; 'Sailor Socialism' meme, Comfrey on Succession, GWFF Best First Feature at Berlinale 2021.