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Sivabharata of Paramananda
The Sivabharata (शिवभारत) is a Sanskrit epic poem on the life and deeds of the Maratha king Shivaji, composed by his court poet Kavindra Paramananda during Shivaji's lifetime.
Sivagamiyin Sabatham
Sivagamiyin Sabatham (சிவகாமியின் சபதம், "Sivakami's Vow") is a Tamil historical novel by Kalki R. Krishnamurthy, serialised from 1944 to 1946 and set in the 7th-century Pallava kingdom of Kanchipuram.
Sivagnana Siddhiyar
Sivagnana Siddhiyar (சிவஞான சித்தியார்) is a 13th-century Tamil philosophical treatise of Śaiva Siddhānta by Aruḷnandi Śivācārya, the second of the fourteen Meykaṇḍa Śāstras and the principal elaboration of Meykaṇḍār's Śivajñānabodham.
Sivaji
Sivaji Raja, also known as Shivaji Raja (శివాజీ రాజా), is a Telugu comedian and character actor, born in 1962, best known for the sitcom Amrutham and a film career since the late 1980s.
Sivaji Ganesan (சிவாஜி கணேசன்)
Sivaji Ganesan (சிவாஜி கணேசன்), born Villupuram Chinnaiya Manrayar Ganesamoorthy (1928–2001), was a Tamil film and stage actor, Nadigar Thilagam, star of Parasakthi (1952), with over 300 Tamil films, Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Chevalier, and the 1996 Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
Sivaji: The Boss
Sivaji: The Boss (சிவாஜி) is a 2007 Tamil action drama directed by Shankar, starring Rajinikanth as a US-returned engineer fighting corruption; AVM Productions production with A.R. Rahman music, about Rs 60 crore budget, and several Tamil-cinema distribution firsts.
Sivakaivalya
Sivakaivalya was a Brahmin priest who became guru to Jayavarman II after the king came from Java to Indrapura, and whose family alone furnished the priests of the Devaraja.
Sivakarthikeyan (சிவகார்த்திகேயன்)
Sivakarthikeyan (சிவகார்த்திகேயன்) is an Indian actor, producer, and playback singer who works in Tamil cinema, born in 1985 in Sivagangai, Tamil Nadu; he won a Filmfare Award for Amaran.
Sivakasi (film)
Sivakasi (சிவகாசி) is a 2005 Tamil action drama by Perarasu starring Vijay, Asin, and Prakash Raj, a Deepavali release about a welder saving his mother from his evil brother; not the unrelated Telugu Arjun film.
Sivakasi (சிவகாசி)
Sivakasi (சிவகாசி), nicknamed Kutty Japan, is a town in Virudhunagar district, Tamil Nadu, India, producing about 90 percent of India's fireworks in a ₹60 billion (₹6,000 crore) industry.
Sivakumar (சிவகுமார்)
Sivakumar (சிவகுமார்), born Palaniswamy in 1941, is a Tamil film actor (1965–2005, about 190–200 films), painter and orator, father of actors Suriya and Karthi.
Sivalik Hills
Sivalik Hills (Churia/Chure Hills), southernmost and lowest Himalayan range, about 1,700 km long through Pakistan, India, and Nepal, built of up to 6,000 m of Neogene Siwalik Group molasse and uplifted along the active Main Frontal Thrust.
Sivamani (percussionist)
Anandan Sivamani, known as Drums Sivamani, is an Indian percussionist and film composer from Chennai, a signature player on A.R. Rahman's recordings for over three decades.
Sivananda Saraswati (शिवानन्द सरस्वती)
Sivananda Saraswati (शिवानन्द सरस्वती), also known as Swami Sivananda, was a Hindu monk who founded the Divine Life Society at Rishikesh in 1936 and wrote over 300 books.
Sivanath Sastri
Sivanath Sastri (শিবনাথ শাস্ত্রী, 1847–1919) was a Bengali writer, educationist, and social reformer who co-founded the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj and chronicled the Bengal Renaissance.
Sivand
Sivand (Fars province, Iran): a mountain, ancient Achaemenid limestone quarry near Persepolis and Pasargadae, the Pulvar/Sivand River, and the Sivand Dam whose 2000s reservoir prompted major salvage excavations at Tang-e Bolaghi.
Sivapithecus
Sivapithecus, extinct Miocene hominoid ape (~12–7 Ma) from the Siwaliks of India and Pakistan; Ramapithecus is its synonym; orangutan-like face (skull GSP 15000) places it on the orangutan lineage, with arboreal quadrupedal locomotion.
Sivappu Manjal Pachai (சிவப்பு மஞ்சள் பச்சை)
Sivappu Manjal Pachai (சிவப்பு மஞ்சள் பச்சை) is a 2019 Tamil family drama by director Sasi, starring Siddharth as a traffic cop and G. V. Prakash Kumar as a street racer who become brothers-in-law; Telugu dub Orey Baammardhi, 2020 Ananda Vikatan debut actress award.
Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar
Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar (1930–2004) was an Indian physicist who discovered discotic liquid crystals in 1977 and built a leading liquid-crystal school at the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore.
Sivarapalli
Sivarapalli (సివరపల్లి) is a Telugu comedy-drama web series released on Prime Video in 2025. It is an official remake of Panchayat and focuses on life in rural Telangana.
Sivas
Sivas is a province and city in central Turkey, second largest by area at 28,488 km², with 631,401 people (2025). Known for the UNESCO-listed Divriği Great Mosque and Hospital (1985) and the 1919 National Struggle congress.
Sivasspor
Sivasspor, also known as Sivasspor Kulübü, is a Turkish professional football club based in Sivas and founded in 1967, known for winning the Turkish Cup in 2022 and playing in UEFA competitions.
Sivelestat
Sivelestat (Elaspol, Xiweina; ONO-5046, LY544349) is an intravenous, selective reversible neutrophil elastase inhibitor approved in Japan (2002), South Korea (2005), and China (2020) for SIRS-related acute lung injury/ARDS; efficacy evidence is mixed, strongest in sepsis-related ARDS.
Siverek
Siverek is a district of Şanlıurfa Province, southeastern Turkey, 96 km from Şanlıurfa; 274,588 residents (2024), 4,314 km², 840 m elevation, roughly 7,000 years of settlement, briefly a province 1923–1926.
Siwa Oasis (واحة سيوة)
Siwa Oasis (واحة سيوة) is Egypt's largest and most remote Western Desert oasis, home to the Oracle of Amun visited by Alexander the Great, a Berber-speaking Siwi community, salt lakes, and a 3-billion-EGP water restoration project.
Siwah Facula
Siwah Facula: 220-km bright facula (palimpsest) on Jupiter's moon Ganymede at 7N 143W, IAU-named 1985 for the Siwa oasis oracle of Zeus-Ammon visited by Alexander.
Siwān
Siwān (सिवान) is a district in northwestern Bihar, India, formed in 1972 from Saran district, area 2,219 sq km, population 33.3 lakh (2011), hometown of India's first President, Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
Siwan Mound
Siwan Mound (Siwan Polar), the Theh Polar archaeological site in Kaithal district, Haryana, India: a centrally protected settlement mound, circa 8th century BC to 2nd century AD, on the Sarasvati river with Painted Grey Ware, Kushan pottery, and Yaudheya coins.
Siwe-palar-huppak
Siwe-palar-huppak, also written Siwe-palar-huhpak, was a sukkalmah, or grand regent, of Elam in the early 2nd millennium BC, a contemporary of Hammurabi who ruled over Mesopotamia for two years.
Siwe-Palar-Khuppak
Siwe-Palar-Khuppak, also spelled Siwe-palar-huppak, was a grand regent (sukkalmah) of Elam who briefly ruled Mesopotamia before an alliance led by Hammurabi of Babylon ended Elamite power in the west.