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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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
Ashtapradhan
The Ashtapradhan (अष्टप्रधान) was the council of eight ministers, headed by the Peshwa, that Maratha ruler Shivaji established to govern his state; his son Sambhaji later scattered it.
Ashtar (extraterrestrial being)
Ashtar is an extraterrestrial being in UFO contactee tradition, first reported by George Van Tassel in 1952 as commander of a spacecraft fleet guarding Earth, central to the Ashtar Command.
Ashtavinayaka (अष्टविनायक)
Ashtavinayaka (अष्टविनायक, also spelled Asthavinayak) is a pilgrimage circuit of eight Ganesha temples in Maharashtra, India, a 300 km route around Pune traditionally begun and ended at Morgaon.
Ashtead Group
Ashtead Group was a British equipment rental holding company whose operating business, Sunbelt Rentals, rented construction and industrial equipment in the US, Canada, and the UK.
Ashton-Tate
Ashton-Tate was an American personal-computer software company founded in 1980, best known for the dBASE database program, which it sold to Borland in 1991 for $439 million.
Ashu
Ashu (阿术), 1234 to 1287, was a Yuan dynasty general of the Uriankhi clan who besieged Xiangyang and led the Yangtze campaign that ended Southern Song resistance.
Ashu Garg
Ashu Garg is a venture capitalist and General Partner at Foundation Capital since 2008, an early investor in Databricks and unicorns including Cohesity, Eightfold AI, and Turing.
Ashur (god)
Ashur (Aššur, Assur) was the national god and chief deity of the Assyrian pantheon, personifying the city of Ashur on the Tigris; land, city, and god shared one name, and Assyria derives from it.
Ashur-bel-kala
Ashur-bel-kala, also written Aššur-bēl-kala, was king of Assyria from about 1074 to 1056 BC, a son of Tiglath-Pileser I who fought the Arameans and rebuilt temples at Assur.
Ashur-bel-nisheshu
Ashur-bel-nisheshu (Aššur-bēl-nīšēšu) was king of Assyria for nine years, dated 1417–1409 or 1407–1399 BC, best known for a boundary treaty and oath with Karaindaš, king of Kassite Babylonia.
Ashur-dan I
Ashur-dan I, also written Assur-dan I, was the 83rd king of Assyria during the Middle Assyrian period, reigning about 46 years, from about 1178 to 1133 BC.
Ashur-dan II
Ashur-dan II, also known as Aššur-dān II, was king of Assyria from 934 to 912 BC, counted as the first king of the Neo-Assyrian period.
Ashur-dan III
Ashur-dan III (Aššur-dān III) was king of Assyria from 772 to 755 BC, son of Adad-nirari III, whose reign of plagues and revolts marked the age of the magnates.
Ashur-danin-pal
Ashur-danin-pal was an Assyrian prince, son and crown prince of King Shalmaneser III, who led a great revolt against his father in the late 820s BC.
Ashur-nadin-ahhe I
Ashur-nadin-ahhe I (Aššur-nādin-aḫḫē I) was an early Middle Assyrian king, entry 66 of the Assyrian King List, son of Ashur-rabi I and predecessor of Enlil-nasir II.
Ashur-nadin-ahhe II
Ashur-nadin-ahhe II (Aššur-nādin-ahhē II) was an Assyrian king of the late 15th and early 14th century BC, known mainly from the Amarna letter EA 16.
Ashur-nadin-apli
Ashur-nedin-apli was a King of Assyria who seized the throne during his father's lifetime, with reigns of three or four years, dated 1206–1203 BC or 1196–1193 BC.