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Kamandakiya Nitisara
The Kamandakiya Nitisara (कामन्दकीय नीतिसार), also called the Nitisara, is a Sanskrit manual of statecraft attributed to Kamandaka that consolidates Kautilya's Arthashastra and influenced political thought across South and Southeast Asia for nearly a millennium.
Kamandar Madzhydau
Kamandar Madzhydau (Камандар Бафаліевіч Маджыдаў), also Madzhidov, born 1961, is a Belarusian Greco-Roman wrestler; 1988 Olympic featherweight champion for the USSR, 1986 and 1989 world champion, fourth at Atlanta 1996 for Belarus.
Kamandi
Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth: DC Comics post-apocalyptic hero created by Jack Kirby, first appearing in Kamandi #1 (October-November 1972); a boy survivor of the Great Disaster in a world of intelligent humanoid animals on Earth-51.
Kamani (king of Carchemish)
Kamani, also rendered Kamanis, was a Luwian-speaking king of Carchemish in the early 8th century BC, who succeeded as a child under the regent Yariri.
Kamanis inscription
The Kamanis inscription, also called the Kamanis stele, is a set of Hieroglyphic Luwian texts of Kamani, son of Astiruwa, a ruler of the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Karkamiš around 790 BC.
Kāmanīta
Kāmanīta (कामणीट) is a brahmin of the Pali Jātaka collection, the figure about whom the Buddha told Jātaka 228 at Jetavana, a story on the cure of desire.
Kamantigi Ridge
Kamantigi Ridge, an undersea ridge in the western Pacific (Philippine Sea) at about 14.27°N, 125.20°E, 33 km x 13 km, relief 1,291 m; named after the Kamantigi plant (Impatiens balsamina), proposed by NAMRIA at SCUFN-37.
Kamao (TV series)
Kamao is a 2026 Philippine family sports drama on GMA Network's Afternoon Prime, starring Anton Vinzon as amateur boxer Makmak Batumbakal. Created by Reggie Amigo and Denoy Navarro-Punio, it ran 104 episodes from May 25 to October 16, 2026, distinct from the 2005 ABS-CBN reality boxing show of the same name.
Kamapuaʻa
Kamapuaʻa, meaning hog-child, is a Hawaiian demigod or kupua, half human and half hog, known for his battle and courtship of the volcano goddess Pele and a large cycle of Hawaiian-language narratives.
Kamar de los Reyes
Kamar de los Reyes (1967–2023), Puerto Rican-born actor raised in Las Vegas; Antonio Vega on One Life to Live (1995–2009) and the voice and face of villain Raul Menendez in Call of Duty: Black Ops II and later entries; husband of Sherri Saum.
Kamar Samuels
Kamar H. Samuels, Jamaican-born American educator, Chancellor of New York City Public Schools since January 1, 2026, appointed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani; former Bronx teacher, Bronx Writing Academy principal, and Brooklyn and Manhattan district superintendent.
Kamara Vrandečić
Kamara Vrandečić, also recorded as Qamarniso or Kamarniso, is an Uzbek-American chemist and Uzbek Wikipedia administrator whose first name gave Wikidata its Q item prefix.
Kāmārhāti
Kamarhati (কামারহাটি) is a city and 1899-founded municipality in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, on the Hooghly's east bank near Kolkata, within KMDA; 331,163 people (2011), 35 wards, Dakshineswar temple.
Kamari Dorsa
Kamari Dorsa is a 589-km ridge system (dorsum) on Venus at 59.2N, 55.8E, named in 1985 after a Georgian sky maiden; it belongs to Venus's compressional ridge belts formed by thrust faulting and folding.
Kamari Ramsey
Kamari Ramsey, safety from Sierra Canyon and Palmdale, CA, played at UCLA (2022-23) then USC (2024-25), earned All-Big Ten honorable mention twice, and was drafted by the Houston Texans in the fifth round, 141st overall, of the 2026 NFL Draft.
Kamario Taylor
Kamario Taylor (Kamario Antonio LaQuan Taylor), Mississippi State Bulldogs quarterback from Macon, Mississippi; highest-rated QB recruit in program history; 1,450 passing yards and 17 touchdowns in first five 2026 games.
Kamaru Usman
Kamaru Usman, "The Nigerian Nightmare" (born 1987, Auchi, Nigeria), Nigerian-American MMA fighter and former NCAA wrestler; UFC welterweight champion 2019-2022 with five title defenses, first African-born UFC champion, later lost to Edwards twice, beat Buckley, lost to Du Plessis.
Kamarupa
Kamarupa (কামৰূপ) was an ancient kingdom in the Brahmaputra valley, roughly present-day Assam, ruled by the Varman, Mlechchha, and Pala dynasties from about 350 CE into the second millennium.
Kamarupa administrative divisions
The Kamarupa administrative divisions (कामरूप प्रशासनिक विभाग) were the tiers of local government in early medieval Kamarupa, known from 7th-century copper-plate charters naming the district (vishaya) under a vishayapati.
Kamarupa kingdom
Kamarupa (कामरूप) was an ancient Indian kingdom in the Brahmaputra valley, roughly present-day Assam, ruled by the Varman, Salastambha, and Pala dynasties from about 350 CE.
Kamas-halta
Kamas-halta, whose name means "Kemosh is strength", was a king of Moab in the 7th century BC, known from Neo-Assyrian records including cylinder B of Ashurbanipal.
Kamasan painting
Kamasan painting, also called wayang Kamasan, is a traditional Balinese narrative painting style from Kamasan village in Klungkung, Bali, depicting Hindu epics in flat shadow-puppet figures.
Kamashastra
Kamashastra (कामशास्त्र), the Sanskrit "science of kama," is the genre of Hindu treatises on erotic love and pleasure, one of the four purusharthas; its central text is Vatsyayana's Kamasutra, followed by works like the Ratirahasya and Anangaranga.
Kamasi Washington
Kamasi Washington (born 1981, Los Angeles) is an American tenor saxophonist, composer, and bandleader; his 2015 triple album The Epic and work on Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly made him a leading figure in modern jazz.
Kamasutra
The Kamasutra (कामसूत्र) is a Sanskrit treatise on pleasure, courtship, marriage, and urban life by Vatsyayana Mallanaga, composed in North India in the third or fourth century CE.
Kamata kingdom
The Kamata kingdom (কামতা) was a medieval monarchy in northeastern India, ruled by the Khen dynasty from about 1440 to 1498 with its capital at Kamatapur.
Kamatari Fujiwara (藤原釜足)
Kamatari Fujiwara (藤原釜足, 1905–1985), born Yasue Shigeo, was a Japanese character actor in nearly 180 films, a regular in twelve Kurosawa films including Seven Samurai and The Hidden Fortress, and a veteran of PCL and Toho.
Kamathipura (कमाठीपुरा)
Kamathipura (कमाठीपुरा) is a South Mumbai neighbourhood named after Telugu kamathi labourers, long the city's red-light district, now under MHADA's 27.59-acre cluster redevelopment approved in 2023.
Kamau Brathwaite
Kamau Brathwaite, born Lawson Edward Brathwaite (1930–2020), was a Barbadian poet and historian whose trilogy The Arrivants and concept of nation language reshaped Caribbean literature in English.
Kamayani
Kamayani (कामायनी) is a 1936 Hindi epic poem by Jaishankar Prasad, the leading epic of the Chhayavad movement, retelling the flood myth of Manu and Shraddha.