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Ashoka's policy of Dhamma
Ashoka's policy of Dhamma: the Mauryan emperor's ethical code of social conduct, propagated through rock and pillar edicts after the Kalinga War, distinct from Buddhist doctrine itself.
Ashoka's visit to Lumbini
Ashoka's visit to Lumbini (लुम्बिनी यात्रा) was a 249 BC pilgrimage by Mauryan emperor Ashoka to Lumbini, Nepal, the Buddha's recorded birthplace, where he erected an inscribed pillar and reduced the village's taxes.
Ashokamitran
Ashokamitran (அசோகமித்திரன்), born Tyagarajan in 1931 in Secunderabad, was a Tamil novelist and short story writer who won the 1996 Sahitya Akademi award; he died in 2017.
Ashokan Farewell
Ashokan Farewell: waltz by Jay Ungar, 1982, written at his Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camp; theme of Ken Burns' The Civil War (1990) and the Sullivan Ballou letter cue.
Ashokasundari (अशोकसुन्दरी)
Ashokasundari (अशोकसुन्दरी, Aśokasundarī), also Bala Tripurasundari, is a Hindu goddess, daughter of Shiva and Parvati, born from the Kalpavriksha in the Padma Purana, wife of Nahusha and mother of Yayati.
Ashoke Sen (অশোক সেন)
Ashoke Sen (অশোক সেন), born 1956 in Calcutta, is an Indian string theorist who proved S-duality in 1994 and won the inaugural Fundamental Physics Prize in 2012.
Ashot I Artsruni
Ashot I Artsruni (Աշոտ Արծրունի) was an Armenian prince who ruled Vaspurakan, southeast of Lake Van, from 836 to 852 and again from 868 until his death in 874.
Ashot I of Armenia
Ashot I of Armenia (c. 820–890) was the first king of the restored Armenian kingdom and founder of the Bagratuni dynasty, crowned in 885 at Bagaran after serving as Prince of Princes.
Ashot I of Tao-Klarjeti
Ashot I the Great (Georgian: აშოტ I დიდი) was a Georgian Bagrationi ruler who founded the Tao-Klarjeti principality, received the Byzantine title of kouropalates, and died in 826.
Ashot II of Armenia
Ashot II, called Yerkat ("the Iron"), was King of Armenia from 914 to 929, a Bagratid ruler who restored Armenian statehood after his father's murder.
Ashot III of Armenia
Ashot III the Merciful (Armenian: Աշոտ Գ) was king of the medieval Bagratid kingdom of Armenia from 952/53 to 977, acknowledged as Shahanshah of Greater Armenia.
Ashot Msaker
Ashot Msaker, also known as Ashot IV Bagratuni (Armenian: Աշոտ Մսակեր, "the Meat-Eater"), was an Armenian Bagratid prince who served as presiding prince of Armenia from 806 to 826.
ASHRAE
ASHRAE, formerly known as ASHVE, is an international society of over 50,000 heating, refrigerating, and air-conditioning professionals from more than 132 nations, founded in 1959 and headquartered in Georgia.
ASHRAE Guideline 14
ASHRAE Guideline 14, Measurement of Energy, Demand, and Water Savings, is an ASHRAE guideline defining how to measure energy, demand, and water savings from building retrofit projects, first published in 2002.
Ashraf Ali Thanwi (اشرف علی تھانوی)
Ashraf Ali Thanwi (اشرف علی تھانوی), also known as Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi, was an Indian Deobandi scholar and Sufi guide who wrote Bahishti Zewar.
Ashraf Brik
Ashraf Brik (أشرف بريك), born 1973, is a professor of chemistry at the Technion in Israel, known for the chemical synthesis of ubiquitinated proteins and macrocyclic peptides that modulate ubiquitin chains.
Ashraf Ghani (محمد اشرف غنی احمدزی)
Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (محمد اشرف غنی احمدزی), Afghan president 2014–2021, former World Bank economist and Columbia-trained anthropologist; governed via disputed power-sharing with Abdullah Abdullah and fled to Uzbekistan and the UAE when Kabul fell on 15 August 2021.
Ashraf Jahangir Simnani
Ashraf Jahangir Simnani (اشرف جہانگیر سمنانی) was a Persian-born Sufi master of the Chishti order who settled at Kichhauchha, India, and founded the Ashrafi order.
Ashraf Marwan (أشرف مروان)
Ashraf Marwan (أشرف مروان), Egyptian businessman, Nasser's son-in-law and Sadat aide, spied for Mossad as "Angel", warned Israel before the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and died in an unexplained 2007 London balcony fall; loyal spy or double agent is still disputed.
Ashraf Sabry
Ashraf Sabry (أشرف صبري) is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur who founded Fawry, Egypt's largest electronic payment network, in 2008 and led its 2019 stock listing.
Ashram
An ashram (Sanskrit āśrama) is a Hindu hermitage or religious community where pupils live and study under a guru; the word also names the four stages of Hindu life.
Ashta Chamma (అష్టా చెమ్మా)
Ashta Chamma (అష్టా చెమ్మా) is a 2008 Telugu romantic comedy directed by Mohana Krishna Indraganti, adapted from Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest; it stars Swathi Reddy, Nani (in his debut), and Srinivas Avasarala, released 5 September 2008.
Ashta Lakshmi (अष्टलक्ष्मी)
Ashta Lakshmi (अष्टलक्ष्मी) is the eightfold group of forms of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi, each presiding over one kind of prosperity, such as wealth, grain, knowledge, and courage.
Ashtabharya (अष्टभार्या)
The Ashtabharya (अष्टभार्या) are the eight principal queens of the Hindu god Krishna at Dwarka, led by Rukmini and named in the Bhagavata Purana, each bearing ten sons.
Ashtabula County, Ohio
Ashtabula County is a county on the southern shore of Lake Erie in northeast Ohio, the state's largest by area and its covered bridge capital.
Ashtachhap
Ashtachhap (अष्टछाप, "eight seals"), also called Ashtasakha, is the group of eight Krishna-devotee poets of the Pushtimarg, chosen by Vitthalnath around 1565; its foremost poet is Surdas.
Ashtadhyayi (अष्टाध्यायी)
The Ashtadhyayi (अष्टाध्यायी, "the eight chapters") is Panini's grammar of Sanskrit, a generative system of 3,983 sutras in eight chapters that is the founding work of the Indian grammatical tradition.
Ashtamangala
The ashtamangala, or eight auspicious symbols (Tibetan Tashi Takgyé, Chinese bā jíxiáng), is a set of eight good-fortune symbols in Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism, of pre-Buddhist Indian origin.
Ashtamudi Wetland
Ashtamudi Wetland (Ashtamudi Lake), a 61.4 km² brackish Ramsar estuary (site 1204, designated 2002) in Kollam, Kerala, India; second-largest Kerala wetland, home of India's first MSC-certified clam fishery, facing pollution, salinity rise, and shrinking area.
Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga)
Ashtanga, or the eight limbs of yoga, is the eight-part path in Patañjali's Yoga Sūtras, dated about 400 CE, running from ethical restraints to meditative absorption.