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Kumarakalyana Rasa
Kumarakalyana Rasa (Kumar Kalyan Ras) is a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral pediatric formulation from Bhaishajya Ratnavali, containing rasasindura, gold, pearl, mica, and iron bhasmas triturated with aloe juice, used for childhood fever, cough, jaundice, and debility, and flagged by Australia's TGA for heavy metals in one brand.
Kumarakom (കുമരകം)
Kumarakom (കുമരകം) is a backwater village on Vembanad Lake in Kottayam district, Kerala, India, with a bird sanctuary, houseboat cruises, and Kerala's model Responsible Tourism program recognized by a UNWTO Ulysses Award.
Kumaramatya
Kumaramatya was a senior officer rank of the Gupta Empire, known from Vaishali seals, whose holders commanded the army, governed districts, and linked central and provincial administration.
Kumaran Asan (കുമാരനാശാൻ)
Kumaran Asan (കുമാരനാശാൻ), 1873-1924, Malayalam poet and social reformer of Kayikkara, Travancore; disciple of Sree Narayana Guru and first SNDP Yogam secretary; author of Veena Poovu, Nalini, Duravastha, and Karuna; died in the Pallana boat accident.
Kumarapala
Kumarapala (कुमारपाल) was a Chaulukya king of Gujarat who reigned from 1142 to 1172, converted to Jainism in 1160 under the monk Hemachandra, and made Jainism a state-favored religion.
Kumarasambhava
Kumarasambhava is a Sanskrit court epic by Kalidasa about the courtship of Shiva and Parvati and the birth of their son, the war god Kumara.
Kumarasambhavam
Kumarasambhavam (కుమారసంభవము, "the birth of Kumara") is a Telugu adaptation of Kalidasa's Sanskrit epic, attributed to the 12th- or 13th-century poet Nannechodadeva and printed in 1909.
Kumarata (鸠摩罗多)
Kumarata (鸠摩罗多), also Kumāralāta or Kumāralabdha, is the nineteenth Indian patriarch in the Chan/Zen transmission line, possibly the Sautrāntika master Kumāralāta, with no secure dates.
Kumaratunga Munidasa
Kumaratunga Munidasa (1887–1944) was a Sinhalese grammarian, poet, and language reformer who led the Hela movement to purify the Sinhala language in the 1930s and 1940s.
Kumaravishnu I
Kumaravishnu I was a Pallava king of Kanchi in the 4th century, known only from his great-grandson's Omgodu grant and credited with the ashvamedha sacrifice, possibly after seizing Kanchipuram.
Kumaravyasa
Kumaravyasa (ಕುಮಾರವ್ಯಾಸ) was a fifteenth-century Kannada poet whose given name was Narayana. His Karnata Bharata Kathamanjari retells the first ten books of the Mahabharata in verse.
Kumari (2022 film)
Kumari (കുമാരി) is a 2022 Malayalam-language folk horror film directed by Nirmal Sahadev, starring Aishwarya Lekshmi as a young woman married into a cursed household in northern Kerala.
Kumari (कुमारी) (goddess)
Kumari, or कुमारी, is a Hindu goddess, an epithet of Durga and one of the seven or eight Matrikas, recognized for over 2,200 years and worshipped through the veneration of pre-pubescent girls.
Kumari 21F
Kumari 21F (కుమారి 21F) is a 2015 Telugu coming-of-age romantic drama directed by Palnati Surya Pratap, written and produced by Sukumar, starring Raj Tarun and Hebah Patel; released 20 Nov 2015 with an A certificate, opening at ₹6.43 crore, later remade in Kannada and followed by a planned Kumari 22F sequel.
Kumari Kandam (குமரிக்கண்டம்)
Kumari Kandam (குமரிக்கண்டம்), also known as Kumari Nadu, is a mythical landmass south of Kanyakumari, India. It is said to have been swallowed by the ocean.
Kumari Srimathi
Kumari Srimathi is a 2023 Telugu comedy-drama web series on Prime Video, starring Nithya Menen as a 30-year-old villager who opens a bar to reclaim her ancestral home; directed by Gomtesh Upadhye, produced by Swapna and Priyanka Dutt.
Kumarila Bhatta
Kumarila Bhatta (कुमारिल भट्ट) was a Brahmanical philosopher of the Purva Mimamsa school who flourished in seventh-century India and wrote a monumental commentary on Jaimini's Mimamsa-sutras.
Kumaryasava
Kumaryasava (कुमार्यासव), also Kumariasava, is a classical Ayurvedic self-fermented asava with Aloe vera as main ingredient among 40–50 crude drugs; AFI dose 12–24 ml, API alcohol 5–10% v/v, aloin as analytical marker.
Kumasi
Kumasi, capital of Ghana's Ashanti Region and historic capital of the Asante Empire, is the country's second largest urban region, known for its large central market, royal heritage, and severe human-driven flood risk.
Kumazawa Banzan
Kumazawa Banzan (熊沢蕃山, 1619–1691) was a Japanese Confucian scholar and political economist of the early Edo period, adviser to the daimyo of Okayama and author of Daigaku wakumon.
Kumba
Kumba (K-Town) is a city in the South-West Region of Cameroon, administrative capital of Meme Division and the region's largest city and economic hub, a road junction trading cocoa and palm oil with Nigeria; census 144,268 (2005), UN built-up estimate 329,340 (2025).
Kumbakonam (கும்பகோணம்)
Kumbakonam (கும்பகோணம்), Chola-era Kudamukku, is a temple city in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, with over 188 temples, the Mahamaham tank and its twelve-yearly festival, and Chola temples such as Nagesvara and Banapuresvara.
Kumbalangi Nights
Kumbalangi Nights (കുമ്പളങ്ങി നൈറ്റ്സ്), 2019 Malayalam drama directed by Madhu C. Narayanan, written by Syam Pushkaran, starring Soubin Shahir, Shane Nigam, and Fahadh Faasil as Shammi; four half-brothers in a Kochi fishing village renegotiate masculinity and family.
Kumbaya
Kumbaya (Come by Here), an African American spiritual recorded from Henry Wylie in Georgia in 1926, popularized by Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, made Georgia's historical song, and now an ironic term for naive unity.
Kumbh Mela (कुम्भ मेला)
Kumbh Mela (कुम्भ मेला) is a Hindu pilgrimage festival rotating among four river sites in India on a 12-year cycle; it is the world's largest human gathering, drawing 650 million to Prayagraj in 2025.
Kumbhaghosaka
Kumbhaghosaka (कुम्भघोषक) is a wealthy lay devotee of Rajagaha in the Dhammapada commentary, a rich man's son who lived as a hired laborer until King Bimbisara recognized him by his voice.
Kumbhakarna (कुम्भकर्ण)
Kumbhakarna (कुम्भकर्ण), giant rakshasa brother of Ravana in the Ramayana, cursed with months-long sleep and insatiable hunger; woken for the war against Rama, recast by Kamban as a tragic hero, and read medically as hypothalamic obesity.
Kumbhalgarh
Kumbhalgarh, also known as Kumbhalgarh Fort, is a 15th-century hill fort in Rajasthan, India, built by the Mewar ruler Rana Kumbha between 1443 and 1458.
Kumbhan Das
Kumbhan Das (कुम्भनदास) was a sixteenth-century Braj Bhasha poet of the Ashtachhap, the eight poet-devotees of the Pushtimarg, deputed by Vallabhacharya to sing kirtan before Shrinathji at Govardhan, with about 500 surviving padas.
Kume Masao
Kume Masao (久米正雄), a haiku poet under the pen name Santei, was a Japanese novelist and playwright of the Taishō and Shōwa periods, known for Hotarugusa (1918).