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Mahavatar Narsimha
Mahavatar Narsimha is a 2025 Indian animated mythological action film directed by Ashwin Kumar, retelling the Varaha and Narasimha avatars of Vishnu. It became the highest-grossing Indian animated film.
Mahavatar Narsimha (soundtrack)
Mahavatar Narsimha soundtrack: Sam C.S.'s music for the 2025 animated film, four July 2025 language song albums (7 tracks each) plus an 18-track original score released January 2026 on Think Music.
Mahaveer Raghunathan
Mahaveer Raghunathan, Indian racing driver from Chennai; 2017 BOSS GP Formula class champion, 2016 Auto GP runner-up, GP3 2016 and FIA Formula 2 2019 with MP Motorsport, later Italian GT Pro-Am silver medalist.
Mahavidya (महाविद्या)
Mahavidya (महाविद्या, "great knowledge") is the Hindu tantric group of ten goddesses: Kali, Tara, Shodashi, Bhuvaneshwari, Bhairavi, Chhinnamasta, Dhumavati, Bagalamukhi, Matangi, Kamala, worshipped mainly in Bengal, Assam, Mithila, and Nepal.
Mahavira (महावीर)
Mahavira, also known as Vardhamana or Mahavir Swami, was the twenty-fourth and last tirthankara of Jainism, traditionally dated c. 599–527 BCE and known for teaching ahimsa.
Mahaviracarita
Mahaviracarita (Mahāvīracarita, महावीरचरितम्; "The Deeds of the Great Hero") is a seven-act Sanskrit drama by the eighth-century poet-playwright Bhavabhūti, based on the early life of Rama of the Ramayana.
Mahaviracharita
Mahaviracharita (Mahāvīracarita) is a seven-act Sanskrit drama by the 8th-century playwright Bhavabhuti, based on the early life of Rama and commonly regarded as his first play.
Mahaviracharya
Mahaviracharya was a 9th-century Indian Jain mathematician who wrote during the reign of Amoghavarsha and composed the Ganitasarasangraha, the earliest surviving Indian text devoted entirely to mathematics.
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Mahavishnu Orchestra: jazz-rock fusion band formed 1970–71 by guitarist John McLaughlin with Billy Cobham, Jan Hammer, Jerry Goodman, and Rick Laird; albums The Inner Mounting Flame (1971) and Birds of Fire (1973), the latter reaching #15 on Billboard.
Mahayana
Mahayana, or Mahāyāna Buddhism, is the branch of Buddhism defined by the bodhisattva path to full buddhahood for all beings, with sūtras composed in India from roughly the first century BCE.
Mahayana Buddhist establishment of Jayavarman VII
The Mahayana Buddhist establishment of Jayavarman VII was the state Buddhist institution of the Khmer empire from 1181, centered on the Bayon temple and known for its 102 hospitals.
Mahayana Sect Uprising
The Mahayana Sect Uprising (大乘教起义) was an armed rebellion led by the monk Fa Qing in Jizhou, modern Hebei, in 515 under Emperor Xuanwu of Northern Wei.
Mahayuti (महायुती)
Mahayuti (महायुती, Grand Alliance) is the BJP-led coalition in Maharashtra politics, now comprising the BJP, Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena, and Ajit Pawar's NCP; it traces to the 1989 BJP-Sena alliance and won 231 of 288 Assembly seats in 2024.
Mahbarot Immanuel
The Mahbarot, also known as Maḥbarot Immanuel, is a satirical collection of Hebrew verse and rhymed prose by Immanuel of Rome, containing the first sonnets written outside Italian.
Mahbub al-Qulub
Mahbub al-Qulub ("Beloved of Hearts") is the title of several unrelated Persian, Chagatai Turkish, and Arabic works, including treatises by Alisher Navoi and Barkhordar Farahi.
Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI
Mahbub Ali Khan, also spelled Mahboob Ali Khan, was the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad, who reigned from 1869 to 1911 over the premier princely state of British India.
Mahbub ul Haq (محبوب الحق)
Mahbub ul Haq (محبوب الحق), 1934–1998, Pakistani economist, Pakistan finance minister and World Bank policy planning director, who created the Human Development Index and founded UNDP's Human Development Report in 1990.
Mahbūbnagar (city)
Mahbūbnagar (Telugu మహబూబ్నగర్), formerly Palamoor, is a Telangana city and district headquarters renamed in 1890 for Nizam Mahbub Ali Khan; municipal corporation since 2005, about 222,573 people in 2011.
Mahbūbnagar (district)
Mahbubnagar district (Palamooru), southern Telangana, India; headquarters town renamed 4 December 1890 for Nizam Mir Mahbub Ali Khan. Area 2,737.96 sq km, 15 mandals, 2011 population 919,903, drought-prone with Palamur migration history.
Mahdali dynasty
The Mahdali dynasty was the line of sultans who ruled Kilwa on the East African coast from 1277, presiding over its control of the southern African gold trade.
Mahdavi movement
The Mahdavi movement (مہدویہ) is a millenarian Islamic movement founded by Sayyid Muhammad Jaunpuri, a scholar born in Jaunpur in 1443 who declared himself the Mahdi in Mecca.
Mahdi (المهدي)
The Mahdi (المهدي), or Imam Mahdi, is the messianic figure of Islamic eschatology, expected to fill the earth with justice before the end of the world.
Mahdi Al Tajir (محمد مهدي التاجر)
Mahdi Al Tajir, also known as Mohammed Mahdi Al Tajir, is an Emirati businessman and former UAE ambassador to Britain who founded Highland Spring, the UK's second-biggest-selling mineral water.
Mahdi Amin
Mahdi Amin, Bangladeshi policy researcher and BNP politician, is Adviser to Prime Minister Tarique Rahman with state minister rank and PMO spokesperson, overseeing education, expatriates' welfare, and labour ministries since February 2026.
Mahdi M. Abu‐Omar
Mahdi M. Abu-Omar is an American chemist, Mellichamp Endowed Chair in Green Chemistry at UC Santa Barbara, known for lignin-first biorefining, rhenium-catalyzed deoxydehydration, and founder of Spero Renewables.
Mahdi Nicoll-Jazuli
Mahdi Nicoll-Jazuli (مهدي جازولي), born 2010 in Sydney, is a Chelsea central midfielder who became the club's youngest Premier League player at 16 years 255 days on 18 September 2026 and the first player born in 2010 in the competition.
Mahdia
Mahdia (المهدية, al-Mahdiyya) is a coastal town in eastern Tunisia, about 200 km south of Tunis, founded by the Fatimid caliph al-Mahdi and his capital until 948.
Mahdieh Mohammadkhani
Mahdieh Mohammadkhani (مهدیه محمدخانی) is an Iranian classical vocalist, a mezzo-soprano of Persian traditional music born in Tehran in 1986, trained by Mohammad Reza Shajarian.
Mahdist conquest of Darfur
The Mahdist conquest of Darfur was the capture of Darfur, in the western Sudan, by Muhammad Ahmad's forces in late 1883 and early 1884, ending Turco-Egyptian rule.
Mahdist invasions of Ethiopia
The Mahdist invasions of Ethiopia were raids and campaigns launched by Mahdist Sudan against the Ethiopian Empire between 1885 and 1889, ending at the battle of Gallabat.