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Aragvadhadi kvatha cirna

Aragvadhadi kvatha (Aragvadhadi Kwath, Aragwadhadhi kashaya) is a classical Ayurvedic water decoction led by Cassia fistula, official as Aragvadhadi Kvatha Curna in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India, indicated for skin disease, itching, vomiting, poisoning, and prameha.

Oct 3, 2026

Arahan (아라한 장풍 대작전)

Arahan (아라한 장풍 대작전, Urban Martial Arts Action) is Ryoo Seung-wan's 2004 Korean action comedy-fantasy about a clumsy cop trained by hidden Tao masters; it drew 2,050,000 admissions and won PiFan 2004 jury and audience awards.

Oct 10, 2026

Arahanta

Arahanta (अरहन्त), also called Dhammadassi, was an eleventh-century Theravada monk at the Bagan kingdom in Upper Burma, traditionally credited with converting King Anawrahta to purified Buddhism around 1056.

Arahmaiani

Arahmaiani, born 1961 in Bandung, Indonesia, is an Indonesian contemporary artist and pioneer of Southeast Asian performance art whose work addresses Islam, feminism, violence, and ecology.

Sep 24, 2026

Arai Hakuseki

Arai Hakuseki (新井白石) was a Japanese Confucian scholar and statesman, 1657 to 1725, who advised shoguns Ienobu and Ietsugu and shaped the Shotoku reforms of currency, trade, and diplomacy.

Sep 19, 2026

Arai Mitsuru

Arai Mitsuru (新井満, 1946–2021) was a Japanese singer-songwriter, novelist, and photographer who won the 1988 Akutagawa Prize and created the million-selling memorial song Sen no Kaze ni Natte.

Arain

Arain (آرائین), also Raeen or Rayeen, a large predominantly Muslim agricultural caste and biradari of the Punjab in Pakistan and India; about 1.1 million in the 1921 census, classified colonial 'agriculturalists', largely resettled in Pakistani Punjab after 1947.

Arak (عراق) (drink)

Arak (عرق) is the Levant's grape-based, anise-flavored distilled spirit, national drink of Lebanon, typically 50-63% ABV, triple-distilled with aniseed on the final run, and turning milky white with water via the anethole louche effect.

Arāk, Markazi

Arāk is an industrial city in central Iran and the capital of Markazi province, founded in 1808 as Solṭānābād and long a major carpet center.

Oct 10, 2026

Araka

Araka (अरक) is a brahmin teacher of the distant past in the Pali Buddhist tradition, remembered for teaching the four brahmaviharas; the Jataka identifies him as the Bodhisatta.

Arakan Army

Arakan Army (AA), Rakhine insurgent group founded April 2009 by Twan Mrat Naing with KIA backing; armed wing of the United League of Arakan and Three Brotherhood Alliance member controlling most of Rakhine State since 2023.

Oct 20, 2026

Arakan Mountains

The Arakan Mountains, also called the Rakhine Mountains or Arakan Yoma, are a mountain range in western Myanmar that separates the Bay of Bengal coast from the Irrawaddy basin.

Arakawa Mura

Arakawa Mura (荒川村) was a village in Chichibu District, Saitama Prefecture, formed in 1943 from Nakagawa and Shirakawa villages; it merged into Chichibu City in April 2005 and is distinct from Tokyo's Arakawa Ward.

Arakawa Toyozō

Arakawa Toyozō (荒川豊蔵; 1894–1985) was a Japanese ceramic artist from Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture, who revived Shino and Setoguro pottery and in 1955 became an inaugural Living National Treasure.

Arakel of Tabriz

Arakel of Tabriz, also Arakel Davrizhetsi, was an Armenian historian and vardapet, born at Tabriz in the 1590s, whose History is a principal source for 17th-century Armenia.

Arakelov theory

Arakelov theory, also called Arakelov geometry, is an intersection theory on arithmetic varieties introduced by Suren Arakelov in 1974 and extended by Gillet and Soulé in 1990.

Araki Murashige

Araki Murashige (荒木村重) was a Sengoku-period Japanese warlord who governed Settsu Province under Oda Nobunaga, then rebelled against him in 1578 and held Arioka Castle for about a year.

Sep 23, 2026

Arakkal Kingdom

The Arakkal Kingdom (അറക്കൽ), also called the Arakkal Swaroopam, was the only Muslim royal house of Kerala, based at Cannanore and holding the Laccadive Islands until the 1790s.

Araku Valley

Araku Valley, a tribal upland in the Eastern Ghats of Alluri Sitharama Raju district, Andhra Pradesh, near Odisha, is a hill-station tourist destination and the origin of GI-registered Araku Valley Arabica Coffee, grown organically by Adivasi smallholders via the SAMTFMACS cooperative.

Aral Sea (Арал теңізі)

Aral Sea (Арал теңізі), brackish terminal lake between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, once the world's fourth-largest lake; shrank over 90% in volume after Soviet irrigation diverted the Amu Darya and Syr Darya from the 1960s; North Aral partially restored by the 2005 Kokaral Dam.