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Dhar (धार)
Dhar (धार) is a historic town in south-western Madhya Pradesh, India, former Paramara capital under Raja Bhoja, seat of the Bhoj Shala, later capital of the Malwa sultanate and Pawar princely state.
Dhar Mann
Dhar Mann (born 1984) is an American entrepreneur and founder-CEO of Dhar Mann Studios, a Burbank creator studio making short scripted moral-lesson videos, with 170M+ followers, five episodes weekly, and Disney, Fox, and NFL partnerships.
Dharala Prabhu
Dharala Prabhu (தாராள பிரபு), 2020 Tamil comedy-drama, official remake of Vicky Donor; directed by Krishna Marimuthu, starring Harish Kalyan, Tanya Hope, Vivek; released 13 March 2020, U/A certified, streamed on Prime Video.
Dharam Gokhool
Dharam Gokhool (Dharambeer Gokhool, born 1949) is the 8th President of Mauritius, unanimously elected by the National Assembly on 6 December 2024; former University of Mauritius dean, MMM-then-Labour politician, and minister of education and industry.
Dharam Karam (धरम करम)
Dharam Karam (धरम करम), also known as Duty and Deed, is a 1975 Hindi drama directed by Randhir Kapoor, produced by Raj Kapoor for R.K. Films, starring Raj Kapoor, Rekha, and Randhir Kapoor, with R.D. Burman music and the song "Ek Din Bik Jayega."
Dharam Singh Gill
Dharam Singh Gill (1919–2001), also called Dharam Singh Sr, was an Indian field hockey defender from Gandiwind, Punjab, who won gold at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and coached India to gold at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Dharam Veer (धरम वीर)
Dharam Veer (धरम वीर) is a 1977 Hindi-language masala adventure film directed by Manmohan Desai, starring Dharmendra as Dharam Singh and Jeetendra as Veer Singh, with music by Laxmikant-Pyarelal.
Dharambir Singh
Dharambir Singh, born 1955, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Bhiwani-Mahendragarh in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after terms from 2014 to 2024.
Dharaṃnātha
Dharaṃnātha is a Nath yogi of 12th- or 14th-century Gujarat, founder of the Dharamnathi sub-division of the Kanphata order, with its monastery at Dhinodhar in Kutch.
Dharamshala
Dharamshala (धर्मशाला), hill city in Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh, India; seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile at McLeod Ganj since 1960. British cantonment founded 1849; elevations 1,250–1,750 m; Seismic Zone V.
Dharamvir Bharati
Dharamvir Bharati (धर्मवीर भारती, 1926–1997) was a Hindi poet, novelist, playwright, and journalist, best known for Gunahon Ka Devta and the poetic play Andha Yug.
Dharamvir Gandhi
Dharamvir Gandhi, born 1951, is an Indian politician and cardiologist who represents Patiala in the Lok Sabha; first elected for the Aam Aadmi Party in 2014, he joined the Congress in 2024.
Dharān
Dharān (धरान), also Dharān Bāzār, is a sub-metropolitan city in Sunsari District, Koshi Province, Nepal, at the Terai-foothill junction; 173,096 people in the 2021 census, a former Limbuwan seat at Vijayapur, a British Gurkha recruitment town, and home of BPKIHS.
Dharani (director)
Dharani (தரணி, born V.C. Ramani), Tamil action-masala film director of the hits Dhill, Dhool, and Ghilli with Vikram and Vijay; debut Ethirum Pudhirum (1999); distinct from director Dharani Dharan.
Dharavi (धारावी)
Dharavi (धारावी) is a Mumbai informal settlement of about one million people on 2.4 square kilometers, known for leather, pottery, textile, and recycling industries, now the subject of the $2.4 billion Adani-led Dharavi Redevelopment Project begun in 2004.
Dharavi Bank
Dharavi Bank is a 2022 Hindi MX Player crime series directed by Samit Kakkad, starring Suniel Shetty as gangster Thalaivan and Vivek Oberoi as JCP Jayant Gavaskar, 10 episodes.
Dharius
Dharius, stage name of Alan Alejandro Maldonado Tamez, is a Mexican rapper born in 1984 in Monterrey who was an MC of Cartel de Santa until 2013 before going solo.
Dharma (धर्म)
Dharma (धर्म; Pali Dhammā) is a Sanskrit concept meaning order, duty, law, and virtue at once, central to the Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Sikh traditions of India.
Dharma & Greg
Dharma & Greg (Dharma and Greg), an ABC sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Dottie Dartland Zicklin, ran 1997–2002 for 5 seasons and 119 episodes, starring Jenna Elfman and Thomas Gibson as opposites who marry on their first date; Elfman won a 1999 Golden Globe.
Dharma Durai (தர்ம துரை) (2016 film)
Dharma Durai (தர்மதுரை), 2016 Tamil drama directed by Seenu Ramasamy, starring Vijay Sethupathi and Tamannaah; Yuvan Shankar Raja music; won National Film Award Best Lyrics for "Entha Pakkam". Distinct from the 1991 Rajinikanth film of the same name.
Dharma Initiative
The DHARMA Initiative (Department of Heuristics And Research on Material Applications) is the fictional Lost research project founded in 1970 by the DeGroots with Hanso Foundation funding, built island stations like the Swan, and ended in the Purge.
Dharma Pongrekun
Dharma Pongrekun (born 1966, Palu) is a retired Indonesian Komjen Pol, former Deputy Head of BSSN and Bareskrim narcotics director, and the independent candidate with Kun Wardana in the 2024 Jakarta gubernatorial election.
Dharma Productions
Dharma Productions (धर्मा प्रोडक्शंस), founded by Yash Johar in 1976 and owned by Karan Johar and Adar Poonawalla, is a Mumbai-based Indian film studio behind Dostana, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, and over 60 films, with Dharmatic as its digital arm.
Dharmachakra (धर्मचक्र)
The dharmachakra (धर्मचक्र), or Wheel of Dharma, is the principal symbol of the Buddha's teaching, standing for his first sermon at Sarnath and depicted on Ashoka's 3rd-century BCE pillar and India's flag.
Dharmaguptaka Vinaya
The Dharmaguptaka Vinaya (四分律, Sifen lü) is the Chinese translation of the Dharmaguptaka school's complete monastic code, translated at Chang'an in the early fifth century under the Later Qin.
Dharmakirti
Dharmakirti (धर्मकीर्ति) was a sixth- or seventh-century Indian Buddhist logician and epistemologist who taught at Nalanda, wrote seven treatises including the Pramanavarttika, and shaped every later Tibetan philosophical tradition.
Dharmamangal
Dharmamangal (ধর্মমঙ্গল) is a Bengali mangal-kavya cycle of praise poems for the folk deity Dharma Thakur, written by over twenty poets in western Bengal from the mid-1600s into the 1800s and telling of the hero Lausen.
Dharmamitra
Dharmamitra (昙摩蜜多), 356–442, was a Kashmiri Buddhist monk and meditation master who traveled to China, founded monasteries including Dinglin Upper Monastery, and translated meditation manuals under the Liu-Song dynasty.
Dharmamrita
Dharmamrita (Kannada: ಧರ್ಮಾಮೃತ, Sanskrit Dharmamritam, "the nectar of dharma") is a 12th-century Kannada Jain didactic work by the Digambara monk Nayasena, composed in 1112 CE at Mulugunda in present-day Karnataka.
Dharman
Dharman (தர்மன்) is an upcoming Indian Tamil-language medical drama and action thriller directed by Ashwath Marimuthu, starring Rajinikanth as a doctor who takes on criminals.