All articles starting with D

Dhakshineswar Suresh

Dhakshineswar Suresh (DK), Indian tennis player from Madurai; 6'5" big server via Georgia Gwinnett and Wake Forest college tennis; Davis Cup debut 2025, 5-1 rubbers, beat Kym, de Jong, den Ouden; ATP career-high 352.

Oct 20, 2026

DhaL domain

DhaL domain (InterPro IPR004007; Pfam PF02734 Dak2; PROSITE PS51480): an all-alpha protein domain of about 150 residues in the ADP-binding DhaL subunit of PEP-dependent dihydroxyacetone kinase, also found in FakA and YloV-like proteins.

Dhalsim

Dhalsim is a fictional Indian yoga master and original fighter from Street Fighter II. He is recognized for pioneering the keep-away strategy and fighting with stretchable limbs and fire.

Dhamaal (धमाल)

Dhamaal (धमाल) is a 2007 Hindi comedy film directed by Indra Kumar, starring Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Riteish Deshmukh, Jaaved Jaaferi, and Aashish Chaudhary; four friends chase ten crore rupees buried in Goa, pursued by Inspector Kabir Nayak.

Dhamaal 4

Dhamaal 4 (धमाल 4) is a 2026 Hindi comedy adventure and the fourth part of the Dhamaal film series, starring Ajay Devgn and Riteish Deshmukh, and directed by Indra Kumar.

Dhamaka (2021 film)

Dhamaka (धमाका) is a 2021 Hindi thriller directed by Ram Madhvani, starring Kartik Aaryan as ex-news anchor Arjun Pathak; an official remake of the Korean film The Terror Live, it premiered on Netflix on 19 November 2021.

Dhamaka (ధమక) (2022 film)

Dhamaka (ధమక) is a 2022 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film directed by Trinadha Rao Nakkina, starring Ravi Teja in a double role with Sreeleela, released in December 2022.

Sep 19, 2026

Dhamar Ali Yahbur

Dhamar Ali Yahbur, also Dhamarʿalī Yuhabirr, was a Ḥimyarite king of Sabaʾ and dhū-Raydān who reigned around 135–165 CE and was succeeded by his son Thaʾrān Yaʿub.

Oct 21, 2026

Dhamar, Harras of

Harras of Dhamar, a volcanic field in central-western Yemen near Dhamar city (14.57°N, 44.67°E), elevation 3,500 m, extending 80 km east with stratovolcanoes, cones, and a possible unconfirmed 1937 eruption.

Dhamma desana

Dhamma desana is the Buddhist practice of preaching, a spoken exposition or sermon on the Dhamma, central to Theravada ritual in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia.

Sep 23, 2026

Dhamma-mahamatta

The Dhamma-mahamatta (धम्म-महामात्र) was a special officer of the Maurya Empire appointed by Emperor Ashoka to propagate dhamma and oversee the welfare of all sects and prisoners.

Sep 23, 2026

Dhamma-mahamattas

The Dhamma-mahamattas (धम्ममहामात्र, "Officers of Righteousness") were officials created by Mauryan emperor Ashoka after the Kalinga War of 261 BC to spread dhamma and report public opinion to him.

Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta

The Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, also called the Dhammacakka Sutta, is the Pali Canon discourse recording the Buddha's first teaching after awakening, delivered to five ascetic companions near Varanasi.

Dhammapada (धम्मपद)

The Dhammapada (धम्मपद) is a Buddhist scripture of 423 verses in 26 chapters, the second book of the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Pali Canon and the most widely translated Buddhist text.

Dhammapadatthakatha

The Dhammapadatthakatha is the Pali commentary on the Dhammapada, usually ascribed to Buddhaghosa and dated to the fifth century CE, containing stories explaining when the stanzas were uttered.

Dhammapāla

Dhammapāla was the foremost Theravāda sub-commentator (ṭīkākāra), a native of Kāñcipura in South India active after Buddhaghosa, ranked next to him in exegesis, with fourteen Pali texts attributed to him.

Dhammasattha

Dhammasattha is a genre of Pali legal treatises, the predominant written law in precolonial Burma, with over one hundred treatises surviving in thousands of manuscripts.

Dhammathat Kyawswa

Dhammathat Kyawswa is a Burmese dhammathat, one of the pre-colonial compilations of legal and ethical material that served as the main written law of Burma's royal period.

Dhammayuttika Nikaya

Dhammayuttika Nikaya, or Thammayut, is a Theravada Buddhist monastic order in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma, founded around 1833 by Prince Mongkut, later King Rama IV.

Dhammayuttika Nikaya in Lan Na

The Dhammayuttika Nikaya in Lan Na (นิกายธรรมยุต) was the northern branch of a reform monastic order founded by Prince Mongkut, planted in Lan Na in 1895–96.

Dhammazedi

Dhammazedi (ဓမ္မစေတီ), a former Mon Buddhist monk, was king of Hanthawaddy (Pegu) in Lower Burma from 1471 to 1492 and made his kingdom a center of Theravada Buddhism through the Kalyani inscriptions reform.

Dhammazedi's sangha reform and Kalyani ordination

Dhammazedi's sangha reform and Kalyani ordination was King Dhammazedi's purification of the Buddhist monkhood of Pegu in lower Burma, re-ordaining monks in the Mahavihara lineage of Sri Lanka.

Dhammika Perera

Dhammika Perera, born in 1967, is a Sri Lankan tycoon who controls 51% of Hayleys PLC and served briefly as Minister of Investment Promotion in 2022.

Oct 10, 2026

Dhammuttara

Dhammuttara (Sanskrit Dharmottara) is the Vinaya master after whom the Dharmottarīya school, a Vātsīputrīya branch of the 3rd century BCE, was named; his existence is unverified.

Dhampir

Dhampir: the Balkan folklore figure, child of a vampire and a human woman, also called vampirović, lampijerović, and (Bulgarian) glog; a living vampire hunter who sees invisible vampires, documented among Balkan Romani by T. P. Vukanović, with an Albanianized name derived from Slavic vampir.

Dhampiya Atuva Gatapadaya

Dhampiya Atuva Gatapadaya (ධම්පියා අටුවා ගැටපදය), also rendered Dampiya Atuva Gatapadaya, is a tenth-century Sinhala glossary compiled by King Kassapa V that explains the Pali Dhammapadatthakatha and is the oldest datable Sinhala prose work.

Oct 15, 2026

Dhamra LNG Terminal

The Dhamra LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas import terminal at Dhamra Port, Odisha, India, commissioned in 2023 and owned by Adani and TotalEnergies.

Sep 27, 2026

Dhan Singh Rawat

Dhan Singh Rawat is an Indian politician and Bharatiya Janata Party minister in Uttarakhand, holding the state's education portfolios and serving in its Legislative Assembly.

Dhana Nanda (धनानन्द)

Dhana Nanda (धनानन्द), also Agrammes or Xandrames in Greek accounts, was the last ruler of the Nanda dynasty of Magadha (c. 4th century BCE), famed for vast wealth and a 200,000-strong army per Curtius, and overthrown by Chandragupta Maurya with Chanakya around 322-321 BCE.