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Udayamati

Udayamati (उदयमती) was an 11th-century Indian queen of the Chaulukya dynasty of Gujarat, wife of king Bhima I and patron of the Rani ki Vav stepwell at Patan.

Udayan Vajpeyi

Udayan Vajpeyi (उदयन वाजपेयी), born 1960, is a Hindi poet, essayist, fiction writer, and translator who teaches Physiology at Gandhi Medical College in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

Udayana

Udayana (उदयन) was a king of Vatsa, an ancient Indian kingdom ruled from Kausambi, known for his marriages to Vasavadatta of Avanti and Padmavati of Magadha.

Udayanacharya

Udayanacharya (उदयनाचार्य), also known as Udayana or Udayakara, was a Hindu logician of Mithila in present-day Bihar who flourished in the 10th or 11th century and wrote the Nyayakusumanjali.

Udayanraje Bhosale

Udayanraje Bhosale is an Indian BJP politician and Member of the Lok Sabha representing the Satara constituency of Maharashtra, a seat he has held since 2024.

Udayar

Udayar (உடையார்) is a Tamil historical novel by Balakumaran, published in six volumes, depicting Rajaraja Chola I's reign and the construction of the Thanjavur Big Temple.

Udaygiri Mound

Udaygiri Mound, also written Udayagiri, is a sandstone hill near Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, India, bearing twenty rock-cut caves carved under Gupta patronage in the late 4th and early 5th centuries.

Udāyī

Udāyī (उदायी), also rendered Udāyin, is the name of several monks in the early Buddhist canon, disciples of the Buddha, whose conduct ranges from teaching the Dhamma to repeated disciplinary breaches.

UDBA

UDBA, or Uprava državne bezbednosti (State Security Administration), was the secret political police of communist Yugoslavia, formed from OZNA in 1946 and renamed SDB in 1966.

Udbhata

Udbhata (उद्भट), also called Bhatta Udbhata, was a Kashmirian poet and rhetorician who served as head of the pandits at King Jayapida's court and wrote the Kavyalankarasangraha.

Udbina

Udbina is a village and municipality in Lika, central Croatia, on Krbavsko polje at about 830 m altitude; medieval seat of Krbava County and its bishopric, site of the 1493 Battle of Krbava Field, occupied 1991 and reintegrated in 1995.

Uddaka Ramaputta

Uddaka Ramaputta (उद्दक रामपुत्त) was an ascetic meditation teacher in ancient India, remembered as the second of the two masters under whom Siddhartha Gotama studied before he became the Buddha.

Uddalaka Aruni

Uddalaka Aruni (उद्दालक आरुणि), originally named Aruni, was a Vedic sage from Panchala who taught his son Shvetaketu the mahavakya "tat tvam asi" in the Chandogya Upanishad.

Udder

Udder: the consolidated mammary gland of the cow and other large mammals, with four independent quarters, suspensory ligaments, external pudendal blood supply, and mastitis as its main disease.

Uddhav Thackeray

Uddhav Thackeray, born 1960, Indian politician, Shiv Sena chief and 29th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (2019–2022) under the Maha Vikas Aghadi; lost the Shiv Sena name and symbol to Eknath Shinde in 2023 and now leads Shiv Sena (UBT).

Uddjaure

Uddjaure (Uddjaur), large regulated lake in Arjeplog, Lapland, Sweden, in the Skellefteälven system; about 250 km², 420 m elevation, max depth 25 m; with Storavan a key hydropower reservoir.

Uddyotakara

Uddyotakara (उद्योतकर), also called Bhāradvāja Uddyotakara, was a Nyāya philosopher of the 6th century CE, active around 600, who wrote the Nyāyavārttika defending Vātsyāyana's commentary against the Buddhist logician Diṅnāga.

Uddyotanasuri

Uddyotanasuri (उद्द्योतनसूरि) was an eighth-century Jain monk and Sanskrit–Prakrit scholar active at Jalor in present-day Rajasthan, known for the Kuvalayamala, a Prakrit campu narrative completed in 779.

Udemy

Udemy is an online course marketplace where independent instructors sell video-based courses directly to learners, listing more than 290,000 courses in 78 languages and reaching nearly 84 million learners.

Udenafil

Udenafil (Zydena, DA-8159) is a Korean-developed oral PDE5 inhibitor for erectile dysfunction, launched by Dong-A Pharmaceutical in 2005; 100-200 mg doses, about 12-hour duration, not FDA-approved.

UDFF study

A UDFF study evaluates ultrasound-derived fat fraction, a quantitative ultrasound technique combining attenuation and backscatter coefficients to estimate liver fat as a percentage, usually against MRI-PDFF.

Udham Singh (athlete)

Udham Singh (Udham Singh Kular, 1928-2000), Indian field hockey forward from Sansarpur, Punjab, who won Olympic gold in 1952, 1956, and 1964 and silver in 1960, tying Leslie Claudius with four hockey medals.

Udham Singh (ਊਧਮ ਸਿੰਘ)

Udham Singh (ਊਧਮ ਸਿੰਘ), Indian revolutionary who shot Sir Michael O'Dwyer at Caxton Hall, London, on 13 March 1940, avenging the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre; tried at the Old Bailey and executed.

Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link

The Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) is a 272 km broad gauge railway in Jammu and Kashmir, India, connecting the Kashmir Valley to the Indian Railways network.

Udhaya (உதயா)

Udhaya (உதயா) is a 2004 Tamil action thriller directed by N. Azhagam Perumal, starring Vijay and Simran, with music by A. R. Rahman. Released 26 March 2004 by Pyramid Entertainment; a man is framed for a terrorist plot and his love interest fights to prove his innocence.

Udhayam NH4

Udhayam NH4 (உதயம் NH4) is a 2013 Tamil romantic thriller directed by Manimaran, written by Vetrimaaran, starring Siddharth, Ashrita Shetty, and Kay Kay Menon, about a kidnapping chase along the Bengaluru–Chennai NH4 highway.

Udhayanidhi Stalin (உதயநிதி ஸ்டாலின்)

Udhayanidhi Stalin (உதயநிதி ஸ்டாலின்), Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister, DMK youth wing secretary, son of M. K. Stalin and grandson of M. Karunanidhi; former Red Giant Movies producer-distributor and actor who retired after Maamannan (2023).

Udhri poetry

Udhri poetry (الشعر العذري, al-ghazal al-'udhri) is a classical Arabic genre of chaste love poetry named for the Banu 'Udhra tribe, peaking in the Umayyad era.

Udina

Udina (Bolshaya and Malaya Udina) is a pair of Holocene stratovolcanoes at the south end of Kamchatka's Kliuchevskaya group, Russia, with no known Holocene eruptions but seismic unrest in 2017-2019 suggesting possible magmatic reawakening.

Udine

Udine is a city in northeastern Italy, the main city of Friuli, with about 98,500 residents and landmarks including its hilltop castle, cathedral, and Tiepolo frescoes.