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Dhamma-mahamattas
The Dhamma-mahamattas (धम्ममहामात्र, "Officers of Righteousness") were officials created by Mauryan emperor Ashoka after the Kalinga War of 261 BC to spread dhamma and report public opinion to him.
Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta
The Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, also called the Dhammacakka Sutta, is the Pali Canon discourse recording the Buddha's first teaching after awakening, delivered to five ascetic companions near Varanasi.
Dhammapada (धम्मपद)
The Dhammapada (धम्मपद) is a Buddhist scripture of 423 verses in 26 chapters, the second book of the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Pali Canon and the most widely translated Buddhist text.
Dhammapadatthakatha
The Dhammapadatthakatha is the Pali commentary on the Dhammapada, usually ascribed to Buddhaghosa and dated to the fifth century CE, containing stories explaining when the stanzas were uttered.
Dhammapāla
Dhammapāla was the foremost Theravāda sub-commentator (ṭīkākāra), a native of Kāñcipura in South India active after Buddhaghosa, ranked next to him in exegesis, with fourteen Pali texts attributed to him.
Dhammasattha
Dhammasattha is a genre of Pali legal treatises, the predominant written law in precolonial Burma, with over one hundred treatises surviving in thousands of manuscripts.
Dhammathat Kyawswa
Dhammathat Kyawswa is a Burmese dhammathat, one of the pre-colonial compilations of legal and ethical material that served as the main written law of Burma's royal period.
Dhammayuttika Nikaya
Dhammayuttika Nikaya, or Thammayut, is a Theravada Buddhist monastic order in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma, founded around 1833 by Prince Mongkut, later King Rama IV.
Dhammayuttika Nikaya in Lan Na
The Dhammayuttika Nikaya in Lan Na (นิกายธรรมยุต) was the northern branch of a reform monastic order founded by Prince Mongkut, planted in Lan Na in 1895–96.
Dhammazedi
Dhammazedi (ဓမ္မစေတီ), a former Mon Buddhist monk, was king of Hanthawaddy (Pegu) in Lower Burma from 1471 to 1492 and made his kingdom a center of Theravada Buddhism through the Kalyani inscriptions reform.
Dhammazedi's sangha reform and Kalyani ordination
Dhammazedi's sangha reform and Kalyani ordination was King Dhammazedi's purification of the Buddhist monkhood of Pegu in lower Burma, re-ordaining monks in the Mahavihara lineage of Sri Lanka.
Dhammika Perera
Dhammika Perera, born in 1967, is a Sri Lankan tycoon who controls 51% of Hayleys PLC and served briefly as Minister of Investment Promotion in 2022.
Dhammuttara
Dhammuttara (Sanskrit Dharmottara) is the Vinaya master after whom the Dharmottarīya school, a Vātsīputrīya branch of the 3rd century BCE, was named; his existence is unverified.
Dhampir
Dhampir: the Balkan folklore figure, child of a vampire and a human woman, also called vampirović, lampijerović, and (Bulgarian) glog; a living vampire hunter who sees invisible vampires, documented among Balkan Romani by T. P. Vukanović, with an Albanianized name derived from Slavic vampir.
Dhampiya Atuva Gatapadaya
Dhampiya Atuva Gatapadaya (ධම්පියා අටුවා ගැටපදය), also rendered Dampiya Atuva Gatapadaya, is a tenth-century Sinhala glossary compiled by King Kassapa V that explains the Pali Dhammapadatthakatha and is the oldest datable Sinhala prose work.
Dhamra LNG Terminal
The Dhamra LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas import terminal at Dhamra Port, Odisha, India, commissioned in 2023 and owned by Adani and TotalEnergies.
Dhan Singh Rawat
Dhan Singh Rawat is an Indian politician and Bharatiya Janata Party minister in Uttarakhand, holding the state's education portfolios and serving in its Legislative Assembly.
Dhana Nanda (धनानन्द)
Dhana Nanda (धनानन्द), also Agrammes or Xandrames in Greek accounts, was the last ruler of the Nanda dynasty of Magadha (c. 4th century BCE), famed for vast wealth and a 200,000-strong army per Curtius, and overthrown by Chandragupta Maurya with Chanakya around 322-321 BCE.
Dhanak (धनक)
Dhanak (धनक, Rainbow) is a 2015 Hindi children's road film by Nagesh Kukunoor about orphaned siblings Pari and blind Chotu trekking 300 km across Rajasthan to find Shah Rukh Khan; it won the Berlinale Generation Kplus Grand Prix and the 2017 National Film Award for Best Children's Film.
Dhananjay Mahadik
Dhananjay Mahadik is an Indian BJP politician, a Rajya Sabha member from Maharashtra since 2022 who earlier represented Kolhapur in the Lok Sabha from 2014 to 2019.
Dhananjaya
Dhananjaya (धनञ्जय) was a Sanskrit dramaturgist and court poet of the Paramara king Vakpatiraja Munja of Malava, author of the Dasharupaka, a treatise on the ten forms of drama.
Dhananjaya (ಧನಂಜಯ) (actor)
Dhananjaya, also ಧನಂಜಯ or Daali Dhananjaya, is an Indian Kannada actor, producer, and lyricist, born 1986 in Arsikere; theatre at Rangayana, debut Director's Special 2013, breakthrough as Daali in Tagaru 2018, Jolly Reddy in Pushpa, runs Daali Pictures.
Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, known as D.Y. Chandrachud, is an Indian jurist who served as the 50th Chief Justice of India from November 2022 until his retirement in 2024.
Dhananjoy Chatterjee
Dhananjoy Chatterjee (Dhana), Indian security guard convicted of the 1990 rape-murder of Hetal Parekh in Kolkata; hanged 14 August 2004, first Indian execution since 1997, on contested circumstantial evidence with no DNA testing.
Dhanapala
Dhanapala (धनपाल) was a Jain Sanskrit and Prakrit poet who served the Paramara kings Siyaka, Munja, Sindhuraja, and Bhoja of Malwa, and wrote the prose romance Tilakamañjarī.
Dhanapur Mound
Dhanapur Mound (Large mound of brick ruins, Dhanapur) is a centrally protected ASI monument at Dhanapur village, Chandauli district, Uttar Pradesh, under Sarnath Circle; one of seven protected sites in the district, recorded in 19th-century survey lists with possible Lakshmi-Narayana temple remains.
Dhanbad (धनबाद)
Dhanbad (धनबाद) is a district in northeast Jharkhand, India, called the Coal Capital of India for the Jharia coalfield. Created 1956 from Manbhum district; Census 2011 population 28,46,954; BCCL coal mining, coal fires, and IIT (ISM) Dhanbad.
Dhandoraa
Dhandoraa (దండోరా) is a 2025 Telugu social drama, Muralikanth Devasoth's debut, produced by Ravindra Benerjee Muppaneni. Released 25 December 2025, it stars Sivaji, Navdeep, and Bindu Madhavi in a caste drama about funeral rites denied after an honor killing.
Dhanga
Dhanga (धंग) was a Chandela king of Khajuraho, son of Yashovarman and father of Ganda, who reigned from about 950 to 1002 CE, defeated Kannauj, and took Banaras from the Pratiharas.
Dhangaḍhi̇̄
Dhangadhi (धनगढी), a sub-metropolitan city in Kailali District, Sudurpashchim Province, far-western Nepal near the Indian border; provincial hub of about 198,792 people (2021), 261.75 sq km, 19 wards, known for extreme heat and green-transition waste management.