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Kamadudha rasa (afi afi-kamadudarasamauktikayukta)

Kamadudha Rasa (Mouktikayukta), AFI Part II 16:9, is a mercury-free Ayurvedic herbo-mineral powder of pearl, coral, shell bhasmas, red ochre, and Guduchi Sattva, used as a Pitta-pacifying antacid for amlapitta and hyperacidity.

Kamadudha rasa (afi afi-kamadudarasamuktayukta)

Kamadudha rasa (Kāmadudhā Rasa, muktāyukta) is an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral powder of five calcined shells and coral, red ochre, and guduchi satva, used for pitta disorders such as amlapitta and bleeding conditions; dose 250-500 mg twice daily.

Kamaʻehuakanaloa Seamount

Kamaʻehuakanaloa Seamount, formerly Lōʻihi Seamount, is an active submarine shield volcano 30 km south of the Island of Hawaiʻi, the youngest in the Hawaiian–Emperor chain.

Kamaitachi (镰鼬)

Kamaitachi (Japanese: 鎌鼬, often translated as “sickle weasel”) is a figure in Japanese folklore associated with sudden cuts attributed to an unseen force or a passing whirlwind. Accounts commonly imagine a swift.

Kamakhya

Kamakhya is a Hindu goddess worshipped at the Kamakhya Temple on Nilachal Hill in Guwahati, Assam, held in Shakta belief to be where Sati's yoni fell to earth.

Kamakhya Prasad Tasa

Kamakhya Prasad Tasa, born in 1975, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Kaziranga in Assam in the Lok Sabha since 2024.

Kamakhya Temple

Kamakhya Temple, also known as Kamgiri, is a Hindu temple on Nilachal Hill in Guwahati, Assam, dedicated to the goddess Kamakhya and rebuilt in 1565 by the Koch king Naranarayan.

Kamakhya–Howrah Vande Bharat Sleeper Express

The Kamakhya–Howrah Vande Bharat Sleeper Express is an overnight semi-high-speed service linking Howrah in West Bengal with Kamakhya in Guwahati, Assam, using India's first Vande Bharat Sleeper trainsets.

Kamakshi Amman Temple (காமாட்சி)

The Kamakshi Amman Temple in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, is a Hindu temple dedicated to the goddess Kamakshi, the city's only Devi shrine and one of the fifty-one Shakti Peethas.

Kamakshi Bhaskarla

Kamakshi Bhaskarla (Sai Kamakshi Bhaskarla), Telugu actress born 1995 in Hyderabad, MBBS doctor, Femina Miss India Telangana 2018; debut Priyuraalu (2021), known for Maa Oori Polimera and as Mahadevi in Agadha (2026).

Kamakura (鎌倉)

Kamakura (鎌倉) is a coastal city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, seat of Japan's first warrior government under Minamoto no Yoritomo from 1192 until the shogunate's fall in 1333, now a major temple-and-shrine tourist destination.

Kamakura Daibutsu

The Kamakura Daibutsu (鎌倉大仏, Great Buddha of Kamakura) is a monumental bronze statue of Amida Buddha seated at Kotoku-in temple in Kamakura, Japan, cast beginning in 1252.

Kamakura Donono Tsūsho

Kamakura Donono Tsūsho are the supplementary legal rulings of the Kamakura shogunate, issued in the name of the Kamakura lord and the Hōjō regency around the 1232 Goseibai Shikimoku.

Kamakura period (鎌倉時代)

Kamakura period (鎌倉時代, Kamakura jidai), c. 1185–1333: era of Japan's first warrior government, founded by Minamoto no Yoritomo at Kamakura, ruled by Hōjō regents, ending with the shogunate's fall in 1333.

Kamakura sculpture

Kamakura sculpture (鎌倉彫刻) is the Buddhist sculpture of Japan's Kamakura period, 1185 to 1333, a powerful realism favored by the samurai and led by Unkei's Kei school.

Kamakura shogunate (鎌倉幕府)

Kamakura shogunate (鎌倉幕府), Kamakura bakufu: Japan's first warrior government, founded by Minamoto no Yoritomo (Ōkura shogunate, 1180; shogun title 1192), ruled by Hōjō regents, fell to Nitta Yoshisada in 1333.

Kamakura-fu

The Kamakura-fu (鎌倉府), also called the Kantō-fu, was a regional administrative organ the Muromachi shogunate established at Kamakura to govern eastern Japan, headed by the Kamakura kubō from 1349 until 1455.

Kamal (കമൽ) (director)

Kamal (കമൽ), born Kamaluddin Mohammed Majeed in 1957, is a Malayalam film director and screenwriter, debut Mizhineerppoovukal (1986), Kerala State and National Film Award winner, director of the biopics Celluloid and Aami, and former Kerala State Chalachitra Academy chairman.

Kamal al-Din Behzad

Kamal al-Din Behzad (کمال‌الدین بهزاد), c. 1455–1535, was a Persian miniature painter who led the royal workshops of Herat and Tabriz and shaped Persian, Mughal, and Ottoman art.

Kamal al-Din Bina'i

Kamal al-Din Bina'i (کمال‌الدین بنایی) was a Persian poet, historian, and musician of Herat who served the Timurid, Aq Qoyunlu, and Shaybanid courts and died in 1512.

Kamal al-Din ibn Yunus

Kamal al-Din ibn Yunus (كمال الدين بن يونس) was a mathematician, astronomer, and jurist of Mosul, born in 1156, who taught the mathematician Nasir al-Din al-Tusi.

Kamal al-Molk

Kamal al-Molk (کمال‌الملک) was the honorific of Iranian painter Mohammad Ghaffari, court painter under Naser al-Din Shah and founder of Tehran's Academy of Fine Arts in 1911.

Kamal Amrohi

Kamal Amrohi (کمال امروہی), born Syed Amir Haider Kamal Naqvi (1918–1993), Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and Urdu poet; directed Mahal, Daera, Pakeezah and Razia Sultan, wrote for Mughal-e-Azam, and was Meena Kumari's husband.

Kamal Givens

Kamal Givens (Chance), American rapper and VH1 reality star of I Love New York, I Love Money, Real Chance of Love and One Mo' Chance; Stallionaires member, brother of the late Ahmad Givens (Real).

Kamal Haasan (கமல்ஹாசன்)

Kamal Haasan (கமல்ஹாசன்), Ulaganayagan, born 1954, Indian actor, filmmaker, and founder of Makkal Needhi Maiam; four National Film Awards, seven Oscar-entry films, Rajya Sabha MP since 2025.

Kamal Haasan filmography

Kamal Haasan (கமல்ஹாசன்), Ulaganayagan, Indian actor-director born 1954; filmography from Kalathoor Kannamma (1960) to Thug Life (2025), 19 Filmfare Awards, three National Best Actor awards.

Kamal Hadden

Kamal Hadden (born 2001) is an NFL cornerback for the Green Bay Packers; drafted 211th overall in 2024 by Kansas City out of Tennessee, a former JUCO and Auburn transfer known for press-man coverage.

Kamal Khan

Kamal Khan is an Indian playback and Punjabi pop singer from Patiala, Punjab, who won Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Singing Superstar in 2010 and sang the hit "Ishq Sufiyana".

Kamal Kumar Majumdar

Kamal Kumar Majumdar (কমলকুমার মজুমদার; 1914–1979) was a Bengali fiction writer who wrote in formal sadhu Bengali, best known for the novel Antarjali Yatra and a prose style critics call unrepeatable.

Kamal Nath (कमल नाथ)

Kamal Nath (कमल नाथ), Indian National Congress leader born 1946 in Kanpur; nine-term Chhindwara Lok Sabha MP, several Union ministries, and 18th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh 2018–2020.