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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (महेश प्रसाद वर्मा)
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, born Mahesh Prasad Varma, was an Indian guru who founded Transcendental Meditation, brought it to the West in 1959, and died in 2008.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Ramayan University
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Ramayan University (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Ramayan Vishwavidyalaya) is a private university in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, established June 16, 2025 under the U.P. Private Universities Act, sponsored by Maharishi Ramayan Vidhyapeeth Trust, Delhi, and distinct from the Katni Vedic Vishwavidyalaya.
Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League
The Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) is a professional basketball league in the Philippines, founded by boxer Manny Pacquiao in August 2017, with city and provincial teams playing a home-and-away format.
Maharshi (మహర్షి) (2019 film)
Maharshi (మహర్షి), 2019 Telugu action drama directed by Vamshi Paidipally; Mahesh Babu's 25th film with Pooja Hegde and Allari Naresh, music by Devi Sri Prasad. CEO-turned-farmer story; released 9 May 2019, grossed ₹176 Cr worldwide.
Mahasamghika school
The Mahasamghika school was an early Buddhist school formed in the first schism of the Buddhist Order, known for its doctrine of a transcendent Buddha and its influence on Mahayana.
Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya
The Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya (摩诃僧祇律) is the Chinese translation of the monastic disciplinary code of the Indian Mahāsāṃghika school, completed in 418 during the Eastern Jin dynasty by Buddhabhadra and Faxian.
Mahasangharakkhita (elder)
Mahasangharakkhita (महासङ्घरक्खित) is a name given to an early Buddhist elder, but no chronicle passage clearly names him, and at least six figures called Sangharakkhita appear in the Pali records.
Mahasankha vati (mahasamkha vati)
Mahasankha vati (Mahashankha Vati), a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral tablet from Bhaishajya Ratnavali (AFI 2:179) for grahani, piles, and weak digestion; contains Shankha Bhasma, mercury, sulfur, and purified aconite; dose 125–250 mg.
Mahasenagupta
Mahasenagupta (महसेनगुप्त) was a Later Gupta king, son and successor of Damodaragupta, who defeated the Kamarupa king Susthitavarman and probably died in 595 CE fighting the Kalachuri king Shankaragana.
Mahasenha
Mahasenha (மகாசேனா), also Mahasenha Volume – 1, is a 2025 Tamil adventure thriller directed by Dhinesh Kalaiselvan, starring Vemal, Srushti Dange, and Yogi Babu, about a tribal village guarding a sacred Yaali idol in the Kurangani hills; released 12 December 2025, streamed on Aha from 13 January 2026.
Mahashmashana
Mahashmashana (Mahāśmaśāna, महाश्मशान) is the sixth Father John Misty album by Josh Tillman, released November 22, 2024 on Sub Pop; eight songs, 50 minutes, Sanskrit for "great cremation ground," Metascore 86.
Mahassine Merabet
Mahassine Merabet (محاسن مرابط), born 1999 in Morocco, is a Moroccan actress and model in Turkish television, known as Hira in Esaret (2022–2025) and Nilüfer Hatun in Kuruluş: Orhan (2025–2026).
Mahasthan inscription
The Mahasthan inscription (महास्थान अभिलेख) is a fragmentary Brahmi stone inscription in Prakrit, found at Mahasthan, Bangladesh, in 1931, recording an official order for famine relief at the ancient city of Pundranagara.
Mahasthangarh (মহাস্থানগড়)
Mahasthangarh (মহাস্থানগড়), also Pundranagara, is Bangladesh's earliest urban archaeological site, a fortified citadel near Bogura occupied from the 3rd century BCE to the 18th century CE, capital of Pundravardhana under Mauryan, Gupta, Pala, and Sena rule.
Mahāsumma
Mahāsumma (महासुम्म) is the name the Pali tradition gives to three distinct Sri Lankan theras, including the Koṭapabbata-vihāra incumbent known only from a few lines of the Mahāvaṃsa chronicle.
Mahasweta Devi (মহাশ্বেতা দেবী)
Mahasweta Devi (মহাশ্বেতা দেবী, 1926–2015), Bengali writer and activist born in Dhaka; author of Aranyer Adhikar, "Draupadi," and Mother of 1084; Jnanpith 1996, Magsaysay 1997, Sahitya Akademi 1979.
Mahat chapel of Mentuhotep II
The Mahat chapel of Mentuhotep II is a small limestone cult chamber at Abydos in Upper Egypt, built by the Eleventh Dynasty king Mentuhotep II for Osiris and the other gods of Abydos.
Mahat Raghavendra
Mahat Raghavendra (மஹத் ராகவேந்திரா), born 1987 in Chennai, is an Indian actor in Tamil cinema, known for Mankatha (2011), Jilla, Bigg Boss Tamil 2, and his 2022 Bollywood debut Double XL.
Mahathir Mohamad
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925, Alor Setar) is a Malaysian physician-politician, fourth and seventh Prime Minister (1981-2003, 2018-2020), Malaysia's longest- and oldest-serving PM, architect of its industrialization and 1998 capital controls.
Mahati Swara Sagar
Mahati Swara Sagar, also known as Mahati Swara Sagara, is an Indian film music composer in Telugu cinema and the son of composer Mani Sharma, known for Bheeshma (2020).
Mahatikta ghrta
Mahatiktaka Ghrita (Mahātiktaka ghṛta), a classical Ayurvedic medicated ghee of bitter herbs, AFI000107, dosed 6-12 g, indicated for skin diseases, bleeding disorders, and pitta conditions.
Mahatma Gandhi (મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી)
Mahatma Gandhi (મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી), Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869–1948, Indian leader of nonviolent independence resistance; developed satyagraha in South Africa 1906–1909, led India's freedom movement, ran the 1941 Constructive Programme, and was assassinated by Nathuram Godse in 1948.
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (महात्मा गांधी राष्ट्रीय ग्रामीण रोजगार गारंटी अधिनियम, 2005)
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA) is an Indian law guaranteeing rural households 100 days of paid manual work yearly, enacted in 2005.
Mahatma Gandhi power station
The Mahatma Gandhi power station, also called the Mahatma Gandhi Thermal Power Plant or Jhajjar Power Plant, is a 1,320 MW coal-fired station in Jhajjar district, Haryana.
Mahatma Gandhi Setu
Mahatma Gandhi Setu, also called Gandhi Setu or Ganga Setu, is a 5.575 km road bridge across the Ganga connecting Patna and Hajipur in Bihar, India.
Mahatmya
Māhātmya (माहात्म्य) is a genre of Sanskrit religious literature, a Purāṇic sub-genre that glorifies deities and sacred places, notably the Devī Māhātmya of the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa.
Mahāvajirabuddhi
Mahāvajirabuddhi is the name the Pali chronicle Gandhavaṃsa records for the author of the Vajirabuddhiṭīkā, the oldest known sub-commentary on the Vinaya Piṭaka, likely written in the 10th century.
Mahāvākyas (महावाक्य)
Mahāvākyas (महावाक्य), the "great sayings" of the Upanishads, are four short sentences, one per Veda, that Advaita Vedanta reads as declaring the identity of self and Brahman; Dvaita and Vishishtadvaita interpret them differently.
Mahavamsa
The Mahavamsa (Sinhala: මහාවංශය) is a chronicle of Sri Lanka written in Pali verse, begun in the 5th century CE by monk Mahanama Thera at Anuradhapura.
Mahavastu
The Mahavastu ("Great Story," Sanskrit महावस्तु) is a Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit biography of Shakyamuni Buddha, the earliest Sanskrit biography, belonging to the Vinayapitaka of the Lokottaravada school.