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Saddharmalankaraya
Saddharmalankaraya (සද්ධර්මාලංකාරය, "Ornament of the Good Law") is a 14th-century Sinhala Buddhist prose work compiled by the monk Jayabahu Dharmakirti during the Gampola period of Sri Lanka.
Saddharmaratnakaraya
Saddharmaratnakaraya is a Sinhala-language Buddhist dharma work composed by Vimalakirti Maha Swami, distinct from the similarly named Saddharmaratnavaliya; a 1923 printing survives, digitized on Tipitaka.lk.
Saddharmaratnavaliya
Saddharmaratnavaliya (සද්ධර්මරත්නාවලිය, "The Jewel Garland of the True Doctrine") is a 13th-century Sinhala prose work by the monk Dharmasena, adapting the 5th-century Pali Dhammapada commentary into 360 stories.
Saddiq Bey
Saddiq Bey (born 1999) is an American NBA forward, Villanova product, drafted 19th in 2020 by Brooklyn. Played for Detroit, Atlanta, and New Orleans; All-Rookie First Team; overcame a 2024 ACL tear to average a career-high 17.7 points in 2025-26.
Saddiqabad
Sadiqabad (Saddiqabad, Urdu صادق آباد), city and tehsil headquarters in Rahim Yar Khan District, southern Punjab, Pakistan, named after Sadiq Mohammad Khan V of Bahawalpur; 2023 tehsil population 1,381,759 on the N-5 near the Sindh border.
Saddle
Saddle: a rider's seat strapped to a horse's back, built around a rigid tree. Western (Moorish-derived, horned, heavy) and English (Hungarian-derived, paneled, light) traditions; fit governs pressure distribution and welfare.
Saddle point
A saddle point is a critical point of a function that is neither a local maximum nor a minimum; nearby, the function takes both larger and smaller values.
Saddle Ridge Hoard
Saddle Ridge Hoard: 1,427 U.S. gold coins (1847-1894) found buried in rusted cans in 2013 by a couple walking their dog in California Gold Country; largest U.S. buried gold coin hoard, worth about $10 million.
Saddle-node bifurcation
A saddle-node bifurcation, also called a fold or blue sky bifurcation, occurs when a stable and an unstable equilibrium collide and annihilate as a parameter is varied.
Saddleback caterpillar
Saddleback caterpillar, larva of the slug moth Acharia stimulea (formerly Sibine stimulea), Limacodidae, eastern United States; green saddle marking, hollow venomous spines causing painful urticaria, one of North America's most medically significant stinging caterpillars.
Saddleback Cay
Saddleback Cay, also Saddle Back Cay or Saddleback Cays, is the name of several small Bahamian islands and rocks: an island off North Andros near Staniard Creek, an islet in the Berry Islands, and a 47-acre private horseshoe-shaped island in the northern Exuma Cays.
Saddleback Church
Saddleback Church, also known as Saddleback Valley Community Church, is a Baptist megachurch in Lake Forest, California, founded by Rick and Kay Warren in 1980, with about 30,000 weekly attendees.
Saddlehorn Pipeline
The Saddlehorn Pipeline is a FERC-regulated crude oil pipeline carrying oil from Colorado's DJ Basin to the Cushing, Oklahoma storage and trading hub, opened in 2016.
Saddlepoint approximation method
The saddlepoint approximation method is a statistical technique, introduced by H. E. Daniels in 1954, for approximating densities and tail probabilities from a cumulant generating function, more accurately in the tails than the normal approximation.
Sadducees
The Sadducees (Hebrew צדוקים) were a religious and political group of priestly nobility in Second Temple Judaism, attested in Judaea from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE.
Sade (band)
Sade is a British band formed in London in 1982 and named after its lead singer, Sade Adu, whose smooth blend of jazz, soul, and R&B has sold over fifty million albums.
Sade (singer)
Sade (Helen Folasade Adu), Nigerian-born British singer and lead vocalist of the band Sade, formed 1982 with Matthewman, Hale, and Denman; known for Diamond Life (1984), six albums, 1986 Best New Artist Grammy, and 2026 Rock Hall induction.
Sade discography
The Sade discography covers six studio albums released between 1984 and 2010 by the British band led by Helen Folasade Adu, with over 50 million albums sold worldwide.
Sade Elhawary
Sade Elhawary is an American Democratic politician representing Los Angeles's 57th district in the California State Assembly, first elected in 2024 with over 61% of the vote.
Sade Sati (साढ़े साती)
Sade Sati (साढ़े साती) is a Vedic astrology concept covering the roughly seven-and-a-half-year transit of Saturn through the signs before, on, and after the natal Moon.
Sadegh Hedayat (صادق هدایت)
Sadegh Hedayat (صادق هدایت, 1903–1951), Iranian writer, founder of modernism in Persian fiction; his novel The Blind Owl (Buf-e kur, Bombay 1936) is the most famous Persian novel, translated into some thirty languages.
Sadegh Nojouki
Sadegh Nojouki (صادق نوجوکی) is an Iranian composer, arranger, and pianist who shaped 1970s Persian pop, then left after the 1979 revolution and worked with exiled singers in Los Angeles.
Sadeh (queen)
Sadeh was an ancient Egyptian royal wife of Mentuhotep II, the Dynasty 11 king who founded the Middle Kingdom, buried at Deir el-Bahari in Thebes.
Sadeness (Part I)
Sadeness (Part I), also released as Sadness Part I in the UK and Japan, is Enigma's 1990 debut single from MCMXC a.D., fusing Gregorian chant with hip-hop beats and French spoken passages about the Marquis de Sade; it hit number 1 in the UK and many other countries.
Sadeq Chubak
Sadeq Chubak (صادق چوبک, 1916–1998) was an Iranian short story writer and novelist, a founder of modern Persian fiction best known for Tangsir and The Patient Stone.
Sadeq Khan Zand
Sadeq Khan Zand, a younger brother of Karim Khan Zand, was the third ruler of the Zand dynasty of Iran, reigning at Shiraz from 1779 to 1781.
Sadha
Sadha (Sadhaf Mohammed Syed, born 1984), also spelled Sada or Sadaa, is an Indian actress of Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada cinema, known for Jayam (2002), Anniyan (2005), and Unnale Unnale, distinct from Soudah Development and Sādhana Saptah.
Sādhanā (साधना)
Sādhanā (साधना; Sanskrit sādhanam, साधनम्) is a disciplined spiritual practice in Hindu and Buddhist traditions, undertaken under a guru's direction toward liberation or a deity.
Sadhana Jackson
Sadhana Jackson is an American pediatric neuro-oncologist at NIH's NINDS who studies drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier and received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.
Sadhana Sargam (साधना सरगम)
Sadhana Sargam (साधना सरगम), born Sadhana Ghanekar, is an Indian playback singer trained under Pandit Jasraj, known for "Pehla Nasha" and "Saat Samundar Paar", the 2002 National Film Award for the Tamil song in Azhagi, and thousands of songs across many Indian languages.