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Dharamvir Gandhi
Dharamvir Gandhi, born 1951, is an Indian politician and cardiologist who represents Patiala in the Lok Sabha; first elected for the Aam Aadmi Party in 2014, he joined the Congress in 2024.
Dharān
Dharān (धरान), also Dharān Bāzār, is a sub-metropolitan city in Sunsari District, Koshi Province, Nepal, at the Terai-foothill junction; 173,096 people in the 2021 census, a former Limbuwan seat at Vijayapur, a British Gurkha recruitment town, and home of BPKIHS.
Dharani (director)
Dharani (தரணி, born V.C. Ramani), Tamil action-masala film director of the hits Dhill, Dhool, and Ghilli with Vikram and Vijay; debut Ethirum Pudhirum (1999); distinct from director Dharani Dharan.
Dharavi (धारावी)
Dharavi (धारावी) is a Mumbai informal settlement of about one million people on 2.4 square kilometers, known for leather, pottery, textile, and recycling industries, now the subject of the $2.4 billion Adani-led Dharavi Redevelopment Project begun in 2004.
Dharavi Bank
Dharavi Bank is a 2022 Hindi MX Player crime series directed by Samit Kakkad, starring Suniel Shetty as gangster Thalaivan and Vivek Oberoi as JCP Jayant Gavaskar, 10 episodes.
Dharius
Dharius, stage name of Alan Alejandro Maldonado Tamez, is a Mexican rapper born in 1984 in Monterrey who was an MC of Cartel de Santa until 2013 before going solo.
Dharma (धर्म)
Dharma (धर्म; Pali Dhammā) is a Sanskrit concept meaning order, duty, law, and virtue at once, central to the Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Sikh traditions of India.
Dharma & Greg
Dharma & Greg (Dharma and Greg), an ABC sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Dottie Dartland Zicklin, ran 1997–2002 for 5 seasons and 119 episodes, starring Jenna Elfman and Thomas Gibson as opposites who marry on their first date; Elfman won a 1999 Golden Globe.
Dharma Durai (தர்ம துரை) (2016 film)
Dharma Durai (தர்மதுரை), 2016 Tamil drama directed by Seenu Ramasamy, starring Vijay Sethupathi and Tamannaah; Yuvan Shankar Raja music; won National Film Award Best Lyrics for "Entha Pakkam". Distinct from the 1991 Rajinikanth film of the same name.
Dharma Initiative
The DHARMA Initiative (Department of Heuristics And Research on Material Applications) is the fictional Lost research project founded in 1970 by the DeGroots with Hanso Foundation funding, built island stations like the Swan, and ended in the Purge.
Dharma Pongrekun
Dharma Pongrekun (born 1966, Palu) is a retired Indonesian Komjen Pol, former Deputy Head of BSSN and Bareskrim narcotics director, and the independent candidate with Kun Wardana in the 2024 Jakarta gubernatorial election.
Dharma Productions
Dharma Productions (धर्मा प्रोडक्शंस), founded by Yash Johar in 1976 and owned by Karan Johar and Adar Poonawalla, is a Mumbai-based Indian film studio behind Dostana, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, and over 60 films, with Dharmatic as its digital arm.
Dharmachakra (धर्मचक्र)
The dharmachakra (धर्मचक्र), or Wheel of Dharma, is the principal symbol of the Buddha's teaching, standing for his first sermon at Sarnath and depicted on Ashoka's 3rd-century BCE pillar and India's flag.
Dharmaguptaka Vinaya
The Dharmaguptaka Vinaya (四分律, Sifen lü) is the Chinese translation of the Dharmaguptaka school's complete monastic code, translated at Chang'an in the early fifth century under the Later Qin.
Dharmakirti
Dharmakirti (धर्मकीर्ति) was a sixth- or seventh-century Indian Buddhist logician and epistemologist who taught at Nalanda, wrote seven treatises including the Pramanavarttika, and shaped every later Tibetan philosophical tradition.
Dharmamangal
Dharmamangal (ধর্মমঙ্গল) is a Bengali mangal-kavya cycle of praise poems for the folk deity Dharma Thakur, written by over twenty poets in western Bengal from the mid-1600s into the 1800s and telling of the hero Lausen.
Dharmamitra
Dharmamitra (昙摩蜜多), 356–442, was a Kashmiri Buddhist monk and meditation master who traveled to China, founded monasteries including Dinglin Upper Monastery, and translated meditation manuals under the Liu-Song dynasty.
Dharmamrita
Dharmamrita (Kannada: ಧರ್ಮಾಮೃತ, Sanskrit Dharmamritam, "the nectar of dharma") is a 12th-century Kannada Jain didactic work by the Digambara monk Nayasena, composed in 1112 CE at Mulugunda in present-day Karnataka.
Dharman
Dharman (தர்மன்) is an upcoming Indian Tamil-language medical drama and action thriller directed by Ashwath Marimuthu, starring Rajinikanth as a doctor who takes on criminals.
Dharmapada
Dharmapada (ଧର୍ମପଦ) is an Odia narrative poem by Gopabandhu Das, known as Utkalamani, retelling the Konark legend of a twelve-year-old boy who saved temple artisans through self-sacrifice.
Dharmapala
Dharmapala (धर्मपाल) was a Buddhist Pala ruler of Bengal who fought the Gurjara-Pratiharas and Rashtrakutas for control of Kanauj around 790 to 801 and founded the Vikramashila monastery.
Dharmapala of Kamarupa
Dharmapala was a king of the Pala dynasty of Kamarupa in present-day Assam, son of Harshapala, known from three Sanskrit copperplate grants issued from Pragjyotisha near modern Gauhati.
Dharmapuranam
Dharmapuranam (ധർമ്മപുരാണം), translated by its author as The Saga of Dharmapuri, is a Malayalam political satire novel by O. V. Vijayan, written in 1975 and seen as a response to the Indian Emergency.
Dharmapuri Arvind
Dharmapuri Arvind, born 1976, in Korutla, Jagtial district, Telangana, is a Bharatiya Janata Party politician serving in the Lok Sabha for Nizamabad since 2019, re-elected in 2024.
Dharmaraja Ratha
Dharmaraja Ratha, largest of the five Pancha Rathas at Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu: a three-storeyed monolithic granite temple of Narasimhavarman I, unfinished, never consecrated, prototype of the Dravidian vimana.
Dharmarājādhvarīndra
Dharmarājādhvarīndra, also Dharmarājādīkṣita, was a 17th-century Advaita Vedanta author from Kandramanikkam in Tanjore whose manual Vedānta Paribhāṣā, written in Navya Nyāya style, became a standard introduction to Vedanta.
Dharmarakshak Mahaveer Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj
Dharmarakshak Mahaveer Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj (धर्मरक्षक महावीर छत्रपती संभाजी महाराज) is a 2024 Marathi historical action drama, Part 1 of a two-part series on Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, directed by Tushar Shelar, starring Thakur Anoop Singh, released 22 November 2024.
Dharmasana
The Dharmasana (தர்மாசனம்), meaning "seat of justice," was the highest court of justice of the Chola empire of South India, presided over by the king and advised by learned Brahmins called dharmasana-bhattas.
Dharmasetu
Dharmasetu was a king recorded in the Nalanda copperplate inscription of about 860 CE, best known as the father of Tara and grandfather of the Srivijaya maharaja Balaputradewa.
Dharmasraya
Dharmasraya was a Malayu kingdom on the Batang Hari river in Sumatra that flourished in the 13th and 14th centuries, came under Singhasari in 1275, and was later ruled by Adityawarman.