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Gandhari language
Gāndhārī (Gandhari Prakrit) was a northwestern Middle Indo-Aryan language of ancient Gandhāra around Peshawar, written in Kharoṣṭhī script, attested from the 3rd century BCE, a major Buddhist literary language and vehicle of Buddhism's spread to China.
Gandharva
Gandharva (Sanskrit गन्धर्व, Pali gandhabba) is a class of celestial musicians in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain mythology, husbands of the Apsaras and guardians of Soma; also a consent-based marriage form and an honorific for Marathi singers.
Gandharva marriage (गान्धर्व विवाह)
Gandharva marriage (गान्धर्व विवाह), one of the eight classical Hindu marriage forms, is a union by mutual desire and consent of the couple, without parental arrangement. Traditionally an unapproved form, it was held lawful for Kshatriyas, required saptapadi rites for validity, and its famous example is Shakuntala and Dushyanta.
Gandharvahasta taila
Gandharvahasta taila (गन्धर्वहस्त तैल), also Gandharvahastadi taila, is a classical Ayurvedic medicated castor-oil formulation from the Ayurvedic Formulary of India, dosed 6–12 ml orally for abscess, abdominal disorders, and Vata conditions.
Gandharvahastadi kvatha curna
Gandharvahastadi kvatha curna (Gandharvahastadi Kashayam) is an official Ayurvedic Formulary of India coarse-powder decoction formula (AFI Part I 4:5, from Sahasrayoga) of eight equal-part herbs led by castor root (Ricinus communis), dose 48 g, used mainly for vata disorders such as low back pain; distinct from a nine-ingredient Yogaratnakara blend of the same name.
Gandhi (film)
Gandhi (1982) is Richard Attenborough's epic biographical film of Mohandas Gandhi, starring Ben Kingsley, with Candice Bergen and John Gielgud. The British-Indian co-production won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture and runs 188 minutes.
Gandhi (group)
Gandhi is a Costa Rican rock band formed in San José in 1993 by Federico Miranda and Luis Montalbert, one of the longest-running acts in Central American rock.
Gandhi (TV series)
Gandhi (TV series) is an Indian biographical drama series starring Pratik Gandhi. It is based on Ramachandra Guha's books and premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.
Gandhi Kannadi
Gandhi Kannadi (காந்தி கண்ணாடி) is a 2025 Tamil comedy drama directed by Sherief, marking lead debuts of Bala and Namita Krishnamurthy; released 5 September 2025, streamed on Prime Video from 2 October, grossing ₹4.84 crore.
Gandhi Medical College
Gandhi Medical College (गाँधी मेडिकल कॉलेज) is a government medical college in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, inaugurated in 1955 and attached to Hamidia Hospital, a 1,360-bed tertiary care teaching hospital.
Gandhi Talks
Gandhi Talks is a 2026 Indian silent black comedy-drama directed by Kishor Pandurang Belekar, starring Vijay Sethupathi, Arvind Swamy, Aditi Rao Hydari, and Siddharth Jadhav, with music by A.R. Rahman; released 30 January 2026 by Zee Studios.
Gandhi Tatha Chettu
Gandhi Tatha Chettu (గాంధీ తాత చెట్టు) is a 2025 Telugu drama directed by Padmavathi Malladi, starring Sukriti Veni Bandreddi as a girl who saves her grandfather's 1947 tree through non-violence; crowdfunded, National Award winner.
Gandhi Yuga
Gandhi Yuga, also rendered Gandhiyug or the Gandhi Era, is the period of Gujarati literature from 1915 to about 1948, when Gandhian ideals reshaped its prose, poetry, and fiction.
Gandhi–Irwin Pact
Gandhi–Irwin Pact, also the Delhi Pact: 5 March 1931 agreement between Mohandas Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Irwin suspending the Civil Disobedience Movement, releasing political prisoners, and sending Gandhi to the Second Round Table Conference.
Gāndhīdhām
Gāndhīdhām is a planned city in the Kachchh district of Gujarat, India, built after the 1947 Partition to resettle Sindhi Hindu refugees and named after Mahatma Gandhi.
Gandhinagar (ગાંધીનગર)
Gandhinagar (ગાંધીનગર), Gujarat's planned capital founded 2 August 1965 and named for Mahatma Gandhi, lies on the Sabarmati River north of Ahmedabad, with 30 grid sectors, about 208,000 people (2011), and GIFT City's IFSC.
Gandhinagar Thermal Power Station
Gandhinagar Thermal Power Station (GTPS) is a coal-fired power plant in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, owned and operated by Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Ltd. with an installed capacity of 630 MW.
Gandhism
Gandhism: the political, economic, and social doctrine derived from Mohandas Gandhi, built on satyagraha (nonviolent truth-force), trusteeship economics, village decentralization, and critique of the modern state, debated as anarchism and still contested in relevance.
Gandia
Gandia (Gandía), capital of La Safor county in Valencia province, Spain; Mediterranean ducal city with the Borja Ducal Palace, five kilometres of beaches, 83,135 inhabitants in 2025, and strong tourism and industrial growth.
Gandii Baat (गंदी बात)
Gandii Baat (गंदी बात) is a Hindi erotic anthology web series by ALTBalaji, directed by Sachin Mohite, subtitled Urban Stories from Rural India; seven seasons, 28 episodes, 2018-2023, later subject of a POCSO complaint.
Gandikota (గండికోట)
Gandikota (గండికోట), the "Grand Canyon of India", is a fort village in YSR Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh, above the Pennar gorge; fortress dated 1123, ruled by Vijayanagara, Golconda, Mughal and British powers, now an ASI-protected tourism hub.
Gândirea
Gândirea was a Romanian literary and cultural magazine published 1921 to 1944, first at Cluj and then at Bucharest, and the organ of the gândirism traditionalist movement.
Gando massacre
The Gando massacre (간도참변), also called the Gyeongsin massacre, was a mass killing of Koreans in Gando, Manchuria, by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1920 and 1921.
Gando Special Force
The Gando Special Force (간도특설대), also rendered Jiandao Special Force, was a battalion-level Manchukuo Army unit formed in 1938, staffed almost entirely with Korean recruits to suppress anti-Japanese guerrillas in Jiandao.
Gandoki
Gandoki (Ganɗoki) is a Hausa-language novella by Muhammadu Bello Kagara, published in Zaria in 1934 and counted among the founding works of modern written Hausa prose fiction.
Gandu (film)
Gandu (গান্ডু) is a 2010 black-and-white Bengali rap musical directed by Qaushiq Mukherjee (Q), starring Anubrata Basu as a Kolkata wannabe rapper; banned from Indian release, it won awards at the South Asian International Film Festival and screened at Berlinale 2011.
Gandwa Mound
Gandwa Mound, locally Bhankargarh, is a brick archaeological mound at Gandwa village, Hardoi district, Uttar Pradesh, in tahsil Sandila; a centrally protected ASI Monument of National Importance (N-UP-L101) since 1921.
Ganelon (crater on Iapetus)
Ganelon is a 230-km-wide IAU-approved impact crater on Saturn's moon Iapetus at 44.30°S, 19.80°W, named in 2008 after the treacherous French count of The Song of Roland, the naming theme for Iapetus features.
Ganes C. Sen
Ganes C. Sen, also published as Ganes Sen, is a molecular biologist known for five decades of interferon research; at Yale he identified the antiviral enzymes PKR and RNase L.
Ganesa Macula
Ganesa Macula is a roughly circular, radar-dark feature on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, once thought to be a cryovolcanic dome but reinterpreted after Cassini radar stereo topography as an eroded, non-elevated region.