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Dharmapada
Dharmapada (ଧର୍ମପଦ) is an Odia narrative poem by Gopabandhu Das, known as Utkalamani, retelling the Konark legend of a twelve-year-old boy who saved temple artisans through self-sacrifice.
Dharmapala
Dharmapala (धर्मपाल) was a Buddhist Pala ruler of Bengal who fought the Gurjara-Pratiharas and Rashtrakutas for control of Kanauj around 790 to 801 and founded the Vikramashila monastery.
Dharmapala of Kamarupa
Dharmapala was a king of the Pala dynasty of Kamarupa in present-day Assam, son of Harshapala, known from three Sanskrit copperplate grants issued from Pragjyotisha near modern Gauhati.
Dharmapuranam
Dharmapuranam (ധർമ്മപുരാണം), translated by its author as The Saga of Dharmapuri, is a Malayalam political satire novel by O. V. Vijayan, written in 1975 and seen as a response to the Indian Emergency.
Dharmapuri Arvind
Dharmapuri Arvind, born 1976, in Korutla, Jagtial district, Telangana, is a Bharatiya Janata Party politician serving in the Lok Sabha for Nizamabad since 2019, re-elected in 2024.
Dharmaraja Ratha
Dharmaraja Ratha, largest of the five Pancha Rathas at Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu: a three-storeyed monolithic granite temple of Narasimhavarman I, unfinished, never consecrated, prototype of the Dravidian vimana.
Dharmarājādhvarīndra
Dharmarājādhvarīndra, also Dharmarājādīkṣita, was a 17th-century Advaita Vedanta author from Kandramanikkam in Tanjore whose manual Vedānta Paribhāṣā, written in Navya Nyāya style, became a standard introduction to Vedanta.
Dharmarakshak Mahaveer Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj
Dharmarakshak Mahaveer Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj (धर्मरक्षक महावीर छत्रपती संभाजी महाराज) is a 2024 Marathi historical action drama, Part 1 of a two-part series on Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, directed by Tushar Shelar, starring Thakur Anoop Singh, released 22 November 2024.
Dharmasana
The Dharmasana (தர்மாசனம்), meaning "seat of justice," was the highest court of justice of the Chola empire of South India, presided over by the king and advised by learned Brahmins called dharmasana-bhattas.
Dharmasetu
Dharmasetu was a king recorded in the Nalanda copperplate inscription of about 860 CE, best known as the father of Tara and grandfather of the Srivijaya maharaja Balaputradewa.
Dharmasraya
Dharmasraya was a Malayu kingdom on the Batang Hari river in Sumatra that flourished in the 13th and 14th centuries, came under Singhasari in 1275, and was later ruled by Adityawarman.
Dharmasthala (ಧರ್ಮಸ್ಥಳ)
Dharmasthala (ಧರ್ಮಸ್ಥಳ) is a pilgrimage town on the Nethravathi River in Karnataka, India, where a Shiva temple, a Jain shrine, and four guardian daivas share one sacred precinct under Jain administration.
Dharmasthala mass burial case
The Dharmasthala mass burial case, also called the Dharmasthala mass grave, is a 2025 criminal investigation in Karnataka, India, opened after a former sanitation worker alleged forced secret burials.
Dharmasthala Temple
Dharmasthala Temple (ಧರ್ಮಸ್ಥಳ), formally the Shri Manjunatha Swamy Temple, is a Hindu temple to Shiva as Lord Manjunatha in coastal Karnataka, India, run for over 500 years by a Jain family.
Dharmasthiya court
The Dharmasthiya court (धर्मस्थीय) was the civil court of the Mauryan Empire, described in Kautilya's Arthashastra, deciding land, debt, trade, and inheritance disputes alongside the criminal Kantakashodhana court.
Dharmasutras
The Dharmasutras are aphoristic Sanskrit prose texts on dharma, meaning duty, law, and proper custom, preserved in four school versions and dating roughly from the third century BCE onward.
Dharmavarapu Subramanyam (ధర్మవరపు సుబ్రహ్మణ్యం)
Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, also spelled Subrahmanyam (ధర్మవరపు సుబ్రహ్మణ్యం), was an Indian actor, comedian, writer, and director in Telugu cinema and television who appeared in more than 90 films before dying in 2013 at 53.
Dharmaveer 2 (धर्मवीर 2)
Dharmaveer 2 (धर्मवीर 2), also called Dharmaveer: Mukkam Post Thane 2, is a 2024 Marathi biographical political drama by Pravin Tarde, a sequel about Shiv Sena leader Anand Dighe and CM Eknath Shinde, released 27 September 2024 to mixed reviews.
Dharmawangsa
Dharmawangsa Teguh, fully titled Sri Maharaja Isyana Dharmawangsa Teguh, was the last king of the Medang kingdom in East Java, killed in 1016 in a surprise attack on his palace.
Dharmayuddhaya 2 (ධර්මයුද්ධය)
Dharmayuddhaya 2 (ධර්මයුද්ධය 2), also known as Dharmaduddhaya 2, is a 2026 Sinhala Sri Lankan crime thriller directed by Aruna Jayawardana, sequel to Dharmayuddhaya (2017) in the Drishyam remake series, released 23 January 2026 with Bimal Jayakody as Harishchandra.
Dharmayug
Dharmayug was a popular Hindi weekly magazine published by the Times of India group in Mumbai, started in 1949 and edited from 1960 by Dharmveer Bharti.
Dharmendra (धर्मेन्द्र)
Dharmendra (धर्मेन्द्र), born Dharmendra Kewal Krishan Deol (1935–2025), was a Bollywood actor known as the "He-Man" of Hindi cinema; star of Sholay (1975), over 300 films, Padma Bhushan 2012, BJP MP from Bikaner 2004–2009.
Dharmendra filmography
Dharmendra (Dharam Singh Deol) filmography: over 300 Hindi films across six decades, from 1960 debut Dil Bhi Tera Hum Bhi Tere to Sholay, Chupke Chupke, production of Betaab, and final film Ikkis.
Dharmendra Pradhan (धर्मेन्द्र प्रधान)
Dharmendra Pradhan (धर्मेन्द्र प्रधान), born 1969, is an Indian BJP politician from Odisha who served as Union education minister until 2026.
Dharmendra Yadav
Dharmendra Yadav, born in 1979, is an Indian Samajwadi Party politician who has represented Azamgarh in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after earlier terms from Mainpuri and Badaun.
Dharmesh Darshan (धर्मेश दर्शन)
Dharmesh Darshan, also known as Dharmesh Sabharwal (धर्मेश दर्शन), is an Indian Bollywood director born in Mumbai, best known for Raja Hindustani (1996) and Dhadkan (2000).
Dharmesh Shah
Dharmesh Shah is an American software entrepreneur who co-founded HubSpot in 2006 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer, after selling his earlier company Pyramid Digital Solutions to SunGard in 2005.
Dharmesh Thakker
Dharmesh Thakker is a venture capitalist and General Partner at Battery Ventures in Menlo Park, where since 2015 he has backed Databricks, Gong, and Baseten.
Dharmil Sheth
Dharmil Sheth is an Indian entrepreneur who co-founded PharmEasy in 2015, an online medicine delivery company in Mumbai that became one of India's largest e-pharmacy platforms.
Dharminder Chauhan
Dharminder Chauhan is an Indian-trained scientist with a JD and PhD who studies drug resistance in multiple myeloma as a Senior Scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.