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Padmanabh Singh (पद्मनाभ सिंह)
Padmanabh Singh (पद्मनाभ सिंह), familiarly "Pacho", is the titular Maharaja of Jaipur and an international polo player who became India's youngest Polo World Cup player at 18.
Padmanabha
Padmanabha (पद्मनाभ) was a medieval Indian poet, a Nagar Brahmin of Visanagar, who composed the Kanhadade Prabandha in 1455 at Jalore under the patronage of Akheraja Chauhan.
Padmanabha Tirtha
Padmanabha Tirtha (पद्मनाभ तीर्थ) was a Dvaita Vedanta pontiff and direct disciple of Madhvacharya, formerly the Advaita scholar Shobhana Bhatta, who headed the unified Madhva matha from 1317 until his death in 1324.
Padmanabhapuram Palace
Padmanabhapuram Palace, also known as Kalkulam Palace, is a 16th-century wooden palace complex at Thuckalay, Tamil Nadu, that served as the capital seat of the Travancore kingdom.
Padmanabhaswamy Temple
Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, rebuilt in granite by Marthanda Varma between 1729 and 1733, and among the richest places of worship in the world.
Padmanabhaswamy Temple treasure
The Padmanabhaswamy Temple treasure is a hoard of gold and gems stored in six vaults beneath the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. An inventory cataloged five vaults starting in 2011.
Padmanath Gohain Baruah
Padmanath Gohain Baruah (1871–1946) was an Assamese poet, novelist, and playwright who wrote the first Assamese novels and served as the Assam Sahitya Sabha's first president.
Padmanee Sharma
Padmanee Sharma is a physician-scientist in immuno-oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center whose clinical trials in bladder and kidney cancer contributed to FDA approvals of nivolumab.
Padmapriya Janakiraman
Padmapriya Janakiraman (Tamil: பத்மபிரியா), credited as Padmapriya, is an Indian film actress and Bharatanatyam dancer who debuted in the 2003 Telugu film Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi.
Padmapurana
Padmapurana (পদ্মাপুরাণ), also called Padma Purana or Manasamangal, is a Bengali mangalkavya composed by Vijay Gupta around 1494, viewed as the oldest extant of its genre.
Padmarajan (പി. പത്മരാജൻ)
P. Padmarajan, born Padmarajan Padmanabhan Pillai, was an Indian film director, screenwriter, and novelist of Malayalam cinema who wrote 41 films and directed 18, including Thoovanathumbikal.
Padmasambhava
Padmasambhava, also known as Guru Rinpoche, is an 8th-century Indian tantric master venerated as the "second Buddha" who is said to have established Buddhism in Tibet and founded Samye Monastery.
Padmavat
Padmavat (पद्मावत), also Padumavati, is a 1540 Awadhi Sufi epic by Malik Muhammad Jayasi telling of Ratansen of Chittor and princess Padmavati of Singhal as an allegory of the soul's union with God.
Padmavati
Padmavati (পদ্মাবতী) is a Bengali romantic epic written by poet Syed Alaol in 1648 at the Arakan court, adapting Jayasi's 1540 Awadhi poem Padmavat and regarded as Alaol's finest work.
Padmé Amidala
Padmé Amidala (Padmé Amidala Naberrie) is the Star Wars fictional queen and later senator of Naboo, secretly married to Anakin Skywalker, mother of Luke and Leia, portrayed by Natalie Portman in the prequel trilogy.
Padmini (actress)
Padmini Ramachandran (பத்மினி; 12 June 1932 – 24 September 2006), Travancore Sisters dancer-actress with Lalitha and Ragini, starred in over 250 Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi and Telugu films including Thillana Mohanambal and Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai, and founded a New Jersey dance school.
Padmini Kolhapure
Padmini Kolhapure (born 1965) is an Indian actress, singer, and producer of Hindi and Marathi cinema; a 1980s leading lady and three-time Filmfare winner for Insaf Ka Tarazu, Ahista Ahista, and Prem Rog, great-niece of Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle.
Padmini Rangamani
Padmini Rangamani is an Indian-born American theoretical biophysicist, professor at UC San Diego, and 2017 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Pado'el
Pado'el, also known as Padael or Pudu'ilu, was a king of Ammon in the Transjordan, a loyal Assyrian vassal who paid tribute in 701 and 676 BC.
padoa (company)
padoa is a Paris-based occupational health software company founded in 2016 within Kamet Ventures, whose platform serves occupational health teams and employers in France and Europe, with Thoma Bravo as investor.
Padosan (पड़ोसन)
Padosan (पड़ोसन), 1968 Hindi musical comedy directed by Jyoti Swaroop, starring Sunil Dutt, Saira Banu, Mehmood, and Kishore Kumar; a remake of Bengali Pasher Bari with R.D. Burman music, released 29 November 1968.
Padovan sequence
The Padovan sequence, also called the Cordonnier sequence, is an integer sequence defined by P(n) = P(n−2) + P(n−3), named by Ian Stewart in 1996.
Pádraig Harrington
Pádraig Harrington (Pádraig Harrington), Irish golfer born 1971 in Dublin; three major champion (Open 2007, 2008; PGA 2008), 2021 Ryder Cup captain, 2024 World Golf Hall of Fame inductee, three-time U.S. Senior Open winner.
Padrauna Mound
Padrauna Mound: ASI centrally protected mound (no. 3457) south of Padrauna town, Kushinagar district, Uttar Pradesh; brick-ruin mound 220x120x14 ft, protected 1920, excavated 1984-85; identified with ancient Pava/Pavapuri of the Mallas.
Padre Pio
Padre Pio, also known as Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, was an Italian Capuchin friar at San Giovanni Rotondo who bore the stigmata for over 50 years.
Padri War
The Padri War (Perang Padri) was a conflict in the Minangkabau highlands of West Sumatra from 1803 to 1838, ending with the defeat and exile of Tuanku Imam Bonjol.
Padsevonil
Padsevonil (UCB0942, PSL), a UCB Pharma antiseizure drug candidate for drug-resistant focal epilepsy, dual-acting on SV2A/B/C and GABA_A benzodiazepine site; failed phase 2b/3 trials and development was discontinued in 2020.
Padshahnama
Padshahnama, also rendered Badshahnama or Shahjahannama, is the official illustrated Persian chronicle of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan's reign (1628–58), written by the court historian Abd al-Hamid Lahori.
Padstow
Padstow (Cornish: Lannwedhenek) is a harbour town and resort on the west side of the Camel estuary, north Cornwall. Ancient fishing port tied to St Petroc's monastery; now tourism-led, with the Camel Trail, Prideaux Place, the Obby 'Oss festival and Rick Stein's seafood restaurants.
Padua
Padua (Padova, Patavium), Veneto city in northern Italy, capital of its province; home of the University of Padua founded 1222 and two UNESCO sites, the 1545 Botanical Garden and the 2021-inscribed 'Padova Urbs picta' fresco cycles.