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DECUS DECUS is an independant Association of users of Hewlett-Packard and HP Partners. The membership association, registered in Munich, Germany, acts as part of the worldwide Association of Hewlett-Packard User Groups in Germany and Austria.
DEE DEE (born Martin Dee Granger) is an electro-pop dance-rock Canadian singer, songwriter, DJ, producer, multi-instrumentalist and remixer. Some consider his eclectic style to be similar to Bran Van 3000, Beck, Prince, Pet Shop Boys and Robbie Williams
DEEP2 Redshift Survey The DEEP2 Survey or DEEP2 is a Redshift survey of the Redshift~1 universe. It uses the Keck telescopes (the world's largest optical telescope as of 2005) to measure the spectra and hence redshifts of approximately 60,000 galaxies.
DEF II DEF II was a programming strand on BBC2, which aired at 6pm on Mondays and Wednesdays from May 9, 1988 to May 23, 1994, to serve the teenage market. It was produced by Janet Street-Porter, and followed on from her influential youth TV show Network 7, on Channel 4.
DEFA-Studio fĂĽr Spielfilme DEFA-Studio fĂĽr Spielfilme was a famous film studio in the German Democratic Republic, maybe best known for its fairy tale films. The DEFA-Studio fĂĽr Spielfilme was part of the Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA).
DEFCON (computer game) DEFCON is a real-time strategy game created by independent British game developer Introversion Software. The gameplay is reminiscent of the "big boards" that visually represented thermonuclear war in the films Dr.
DEFLATE DEFLATE is a lossless data compression algorithm that uses a combination of the LZ77 algorithm and Huffman coding. It was originally defined by Phil Katz for version 2 of his PKZIP archiving tool, and was later specified in RFC 1951.
DEKA DEKA Research & Development Corporation is a small research company founded in 1982 by Dean Kamen, consisting of nearly 200 engineers, technicians, and support staff. The name DEKA is derived from Dean Kamen's name.
DEL (Norwegian band) DEL is a Norwegian rock band formed in 1996 by Per Gisle GalĂĄen, Lasse Marhaug and Kjell Runar "Killer" Jenssen. The band's music is mostly improvised and heavily influcenced by drone music, space rock, psychedelic rock, noise music and obscure horror films.
DELAG DELAG, Deutsche Luftschifffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft (German: acronym for "German Airship Transport Corporation") was the world's first airline. It was founded on November 16, 1909 with government assistance, and operated airships manufactured by Zeppelin Corporation.
DELF The DELF (Diplôme d'Etudes en Langue Française) is certification of French language abilities for non-native speakers of French. It is composed of four independent diplomas corresponding to the first four levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
DELMIA DELMIA (Digital Enterprise Lean Manufacturing Interactive Application) is the brand for digital manufacturing and simulation solutions from Dassault Systemes. It was formed after the acquisition and consolidation of Deneb Robotics a company pioneered by Rakesh Mahajan of Ranal Group , EAI-Delta, and Safework by Dassault Systemes in 2000.
DELTA (ELT) DELTA, the Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults, is a professional qualification in English language teaching awarded by Cambridge Assessment, formerly UCLES, a part of the University of Cambridge. The Diploma (or Dip) is often seen as a follow-up to the certificate known as the CELTA, once the individual has done a couple of years of teaching and has decided on a more long-term and serious commitment to the teaching of English.
DELTA (taxonomy) DELTA (DEscription Language for TAxonomy) is a data format used in taxonomy, for recording descriptions of living things. It is designed for computer processing, allowing the generation of identification keys, etc.
DEMO DEMO (DEMOnstration Power Plant) is a proposed nuclear fusion power plant that is intended to build upon the expected success of the ITER (originally an acronym for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) nuclear fusion power plant. Whereas ITER's goal is to produce 500 million watts of fusion power for at least 500 seconds, the goal of DEMO will be to produce at least four times that much fusion power on a continual basis.
DEMOLOGOS DEMOLOGOS stands for Development Models and Logics of Socioeconomic Organization in Space. It is a Specific Targeted Research Project (STReP) under European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme, coordinated by Frank Moulaert at Global Urban Research Unit, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
DEMOS DEMOS (meaning "Dialogovaya Edinaya Mobilnaya Operatsionnaya Sistema" (Диалоговая Единая Мобильная Операционная Система, ДЕМОС), or "Interactive Common Portable Operation System") was a Unix-like operating system developed in the Soviet Union. It was derived from BSD Unix.
DESI Develop Empower Synergize India "Develop Empower & Synergize India" also known as DESI, (Desi is a Sanskrit word which means national or "from my country" (from the word "desh," which means "country").) is a student organization formed at the University of Maryland, College Park in the summer of 2003 with an aim to study, discuss and contribute towards various aspects of India such as culture, society, development, security and portrayals of India in the West.
DESQview DESQview was a text mode multitasking program developed by Quarterdeck Office Systems which enjoyed modest popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Running on top of DOS, it allowed users to run multiple DOS programs concurrently in windows.
DEUS dEUS is an indie rock band based in Antwerp, Belgium, currently consisting of Tom Barman (vocals and guitar), Klaas Janzoons (keyboards and violin), Stéphane Misseghers (drums), Alan Gevaert (bass) and Mauro Pawlowski (guitar and vocals).
DĘżmt was a kingdom located in current region of Eritrea and northern Ethiopia that existed during the 8th and 7th centuries BC. Few inscriptions by or about this kingdom exist, as very little archaeological work has taken place.
Dfs (retailer) dfs is a national furniture retailer in the United Kingdom which specialises in sofas. It was founded in 1969 by Graham Kirkham, now Lord Kirkham, who made furniture above a shop in Carcroft, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and sold it downstairs.
DFA Records DFA Records is an independent record label with an exclusive distribution deal with major record label EMI, launched in September 2001 by Mo' Wax co-founder Tim Goldsworthy, indie rock producer James Murphy and mutual friend Jonathan Galkin.
DFB-Pokal The DFB-Pokal (Deutscher FuĂźball Bund Pokal or German Football Association Cup) is an elimination football tournament held annually. It is the second most important national title in German football after the Bundesliga championship.
DFC Prag DFC Prag (German: Deutscher Fussball Club Prag, Czech:DFC Praha, English:DFC Prague) was an ethnically German football club that played in the city of Prague in what is today the Czech Republic, but was at the time of the club's founding on May 25 1896, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Originally the club was the football department of the Deutschen Eis- und Ruder Club Regatta Prag.
DFDS DFDS A/S, an abbreviation of Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab (literally The United Steamship Company) is a Danish shipping company. DFDS was formed in 1866 as a merger of various minor shipping companies under the leadership of industrialist Carl Frederik Tietgen.
DFDVD DFDVD is a DVD by Dog Fashion Disco released in July, 2004. It includes 2 hours of footage following the band and their exploits on the road through various steps of their career, from early lineups to current.
DFFITS DFFITS is a diagnostic meant to show how influential a point is in a statistical regression. It was proposed in the 1980 book Regression Diagnostics: Identifying Influential Data and Sources of Collinearity by David Belsley, Edwin Kuh, and Roy Welsch.
DFS 194 The DFS 194 was a rocket-powered aircraft designed by Alexander Lippisch at the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fĂĽr Segelflug (DFS - German Institute for Sailplane Flight) based on his Delta series of tail-less designs. As originally conceived, it would have been a tail-less aircraft similar to his DFS 40, powered by a conventional piston engine driving a pusher propeller.
DFS 228 The DFS 228 was a rocket-powered, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft designed by the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fĂĽr Segelflug (DFS - German Institute for Sailplane Flight) during World War II. By the end of the war, the aircraft had only flown in the form of two unpowered prototypes.
DFS 230 The DFS 230 was a transport glider operated by the Luftwaffe in World War II. It was developed by the (Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fĂĽr Segelflug (DFS - German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight) with Hans Jacobs as the head designer.
DFS 346 The DFS 346 was a rocket-powered, high-speed research aircraft designed by Felix Kracht at the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fĂĽr Segelflug (DFS - German Institute for Sailplane Flight) during World War II. By the end of the war, the prototype was only half-finished, but was taken to the Soviet Union where it was completed and flown.
DFS 40 The DFS 40 (originally developed as the Delta V) was a tail-less research aircraft designed by Alexander Lippisch in 1937 as a follow-on to his Delta IV aircraft. In construction, the DFS was more like a flying wing than its predecessor, and was intended to provide a comparison with that aircraft.
DFS 6 The designation DFS 6 is a purported model number of a German glider made in the 1930s. DFS model 6 may have been a target glider made only as a prototype in 1936, or may also be the same as the DFS B6 made in 1938.
DFS Habicht The DFS Habicht was designed in 1936 by Hans Jacobs as an unlimited aerobatic sailplane, with support provided by the Deutsche-Forschungsanstalt fĂĽr Segelflug. Four exemplars were available as planned for the Olympic Games of 1936, where the evolutions of the Habicht over and literally inside the olympic stadium enthralled spectators.
DFU (Internet slang) In Internet slang, a DFU, or Dumb Fucking User, is an acronym used by IT personnel to describe errors by the end-user related to misuse or poor understanding of the basic principles of computer operation. It can be used in expressions such as "It must be a DFU error", and is also conveniently used to openly mock the end-user if a fellow IT support staff member is present on the premises ("Sir/Madam, this is a very bad case of DFU error you have now").
DFW Tornados The DFW Tornados, also known as the Dallas-Fort Worth Tornados, are an American soccer team, founded in 1986. The team is a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and plays in the Mid-South Division of the Southern Conference against teams from Austin, Baton Rouge, El Paso, Jackson, Laredo and New Orleans.
Dgèrnésiais Dgèrnésiais, also known as Guernésiais, Guernsey French, Guernsey Norman French, is the variety of Norman language spoken in Guernsey. It is sometimes known on the island, by the semi-disparaging name "patois".
DG Bank building The DG Bank building is an office, conference, and residential building located at Pariser Platz 3 in Berlin. It was designed by architect Frank Gehry and engineered by Hans Schober of Schlaich Bergermann & Partner.
DG Flugzeugbau DG-800 The DG-800 series comprises a family of 15 metre and 18 metre single-seat glider and motorgliders produced by Glaser-Dirks since 1993 and by DG Flugzeugbau GmbH after 1997. It is the successor to the DG-400 and the DG-600 models.
DGLAP DGLAP stands for Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi, the authors who first wrote down the QCD evolution equation of the same name. DGLAP was first published in the western world by Altarelli and Parisi in 1977[2], hence DGLAP and its specialisations are sometimes still called Altarelli-Parisi equations.
DGov A Doctor of Governance (DGov) is an unusual doctoral degree, offered largely at universities in Ireland. The degree consists of both research and taught elements, and is almost always related in some way to policy making or politics in general.
DGP model In theoretical physics, DGP gravity is a model proposed by Gia Dvali, Gregory Gabadadze, and Massimo Porrati in 2000 that assumes that a 3-dimensional brane is embedded in a five-dimensional spacetime and addition Einstein-Hilbert term is concentrated near the brane. This assumption makes gravity four-dimensional at short distances and five-dimensional at long distances.
DGtrials "DGTrials was formed with one central goal in mind - to increase awareness and participation in modern forms of motorsport through event promotion, retail sales of aftermarket tuning parts, merchandising, and, ultimately, through partnerships with other like-minded organizations and individuals."
Dha (sword) The dha is a sword found in Myanmar, Thailand, and neighboring areas of mainland Southeast Asia. Among Tai speakers it is known as a darb or daarb, and in Tibeto-Burman languages it may be called dao, similar to the word for the Chinese saber.
Dhading District Dhading district, a part of Bagmati zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of Southeast Asia. The district, with Dhading besi as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,926 sq km and has a population (2001) of 338,658.
Dhafer Youssef Dhafer Youssef (born 1967 in Teboulba, Tunisia) is a composer, singer, and oud player. He developped an interest in jazz at an early age and clandestinely listened to it during his education at Qur'anic school.
Dhaher El-Omar Dhaher El-Omar (Arabic ظاهر العمر الزيداني zāhir al-`umar az-zaydānī, born ca. 1690, died August 21, 1775) was the Arab-Bedouin ruler of the Galilee district of the southern Levant or Palestine region during the mid-18th century.
Dhaiso The Dhaiso, or Daiso, are an ethnic and linguistic group based at the foot of the Usambara Mountains in the Muheza District of Tanga Region in northeastern Tanzania. In 1999 the Dhaiso population was estimated to number 5,000, and the Dhaiso language is not being transmitted by adults to children.
Dhaka Dhaka (previously Dacca; Bengali: ঢাকা Đhaka; ) is the capital of Bangladesh and the Dhaka District. Located on the banks of the Buriganga River, Dhaka and its metropolitan area have a population of 11 million, making it the largest city in Bangladesh and one of the most populous cities in the world.
Dhaka Central Jail Dhaka Central Jail is the country's largest jail located in the old section of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The jail has been used to house criminals as well as political prisoners, especially during the Language Movement of 1952, the 6 Point Movement and Bangladesh Liberation War.
Dhaka College Dhaka College (Bangla: ঢাকা কলেজ Ðhaka Kôlej), located in Dhaka, is one of Bangladesh's most important and earliest higher educational institutions. It offers HSC, three years bachelor's and four years honour's course in various majors.
Dhaka Medical College and Hospital Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), established in 1946 during the British colonial rule, is the top medical college in Bangladesh. Situated at the heart of the city near the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka Medical College is an educational institution with a rich heritage.
Dhaka Residential Model College Dhaka Residential Model College is a famous educational institution situated at the heart of Dhaka the capital of Bangladesh. This institution was setup to provide quality education to the students of the erstwhile East Pakistan.
Dhakeshwari Temple Dhakeshwari National Temple (Bangla: ঢাকেশ্বরী জাতীয় মন্দির) is a famous Hindu temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh and is state owned making it as the National Temple of the country. The meaning of the name is "Temple of the Goddess of Dhaka".
Dhakhan In Australian aboriginal mythology, Dhakhan is the ancestral god of the Kabi; he is described as a giant serpent with the tail of a giant fish. He often appears as a rainbow, as this is his way of travelling between the watering holes which are his homes.
Dhaleshwari River The Dhaleshwari River (Bangla: ধলেশ্বরী Dhôleshshori) is a 160-Km-long distributary of the Jamuna River in central Bangladesh. It starts off the Jamuna near the northwestern tip of Tangail District.
Dhaliwal Dhaliwal (Hindi: धालीवाल) (also: Dhalliwal), is a very large Jat clan found in Northern India. It is considered to be an old Jat clan with history dating back over 1000 years History of the Jatt Clans - H.
Dhamar Governorate Dhamar (Arabic: ذمار) is a governorate of Yemen. It is located to the south and southeast of Sana'a Governorate, to the north of Ibb Governorate, to the east of Al Hudaydah Governorate and to the northwest of Al Bayda' Governorate in the central highlands of Yemen.
Dhamekh Stupa Dhamekh Stupa bears particular significance at Sarnath as it signifies the "seat of the holy Buddha", as he proclaimed his faith. It is about 34 m in height and including the foundations, it can be measured up to 42 m.
Dhammapala Dhammapala was a great Theravada Buddhist commentator who lived in the latter half of the 5th century CE at the Badara Tittha Vihgra, near the east coast of India, just a little south of where Chennai now stands. Note the Dhammapala was originally the name of one of the early disciples of the Buddha, and therefore continually chosen as their name in religion by Buddhist novices on their entering the brotherhood.
Dhammasattha Dhammasattha is the Pāli name of a genre of legal literature found in Western Mainland Southeast Asia (modern Laos, Myanmar (Burma), and Thailand) principally written in Pāli, Myanmar (Burmese), Mon, or Tai languages, or in a bi-lingual Pali nissaya style.
Dhammayietra The Dhammayietra is an annual peace walk in Cambodia that originated during the historic repatratiation of refugees along the Thai border camps during the United Nations monitored transition to democracy in 1992. The peace walk takes place in early May and usually involves an assemblage of Buddhist monks and lay persons who travel various routes in Cambodia.
Dhampir Dhampire (also dhampir, dhamphir or dhampyr) are mythological or folkloric creatures. Dhampirs are believed to be beings that are half-vampire and half-human, born from a vampire father and a human mother, or the reverse.
Dhampir (World of Darkness) In the Vampire: The Masquerade role-playing game universe created by White Wolf Game Studios, a Dhampir is the child of a 15th generation Vampire and a Mortal but two 15th generation vampires can't procreate, because without at least some "spark of life", a new life is not possible.
Dhan Gopal Mukerji Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Bengali: ধান গোপাল মুখোপাধ্যায় Dhan Gopal Mukhopaddhae) (July 6 1890 –July 14 1936) was the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States. He studied at Duff School (now known as Scottish Church Collegiate School, a constituent unit of Scottish Church College, Calcutta), the University of Calcutta, in India, Tokyo University in Japan and at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University in the U.
Dhananjoy Chatterjee Dhananjoy Chatterjee (August 14, 1965 in Kuludihi, West Bengal, India - August 14, 2004 at Alipore Central Jail in Calcutta, India) was executed by hanging for the rape and murder of 14-year-old Hetal Parekh on March 5, 1990 at her apartment residence in Bhowanipur.
Dhanasari This is an India musical raga (composition) that appears in the Sikh tradition from northern India and is part of the Sikh holy scripture called Sri Guru Granth Sahib or SGGS for short. Every raga has a strict set of rules which govern the number of notes that can be used; which notes can be used; and their interplay that has to be adhered to for the composition of a tune.
Dhankuta District Dhankuta district, a part of Kosi zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Dhankuta as its district headquarters, covers an area of 891 sq km and has a population (2001) of 166,479.
Dhantal The dhantal is a long steel rod which was adapted from the prong used to connect the yokes of the bullocks that transported the cane-filled carts on the estates in Trinidad and Tobago. The metal horse shoe used on the estate's horses and mules was used to strike the dhantal.
Dhanteras Dhanteras marks the first day of five-days-long Diwali Festival. Dhanteras Festival, also known as Dhantrayodashi or Dhanwantari Triodasi, falls on the auspicious thirteenth lunar day of Krishna Paksha in the Hindu month of Ashwin (October/November).
Dhanusa District Dhanusa district, a part of Janakpur zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Janakpur as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,180 sq km and has a population (2001) of 671,364.
Dhanvantari Dhanvantari (also Dhanwantari, Dhanvanthari) (धन्वंतरी) is an avatar of Vishnu from the Hindu tradition. He appears in the Vedas and Puranas as the physician of the gods (devas), and the controller (god) of Ayurvedic medicine.
Dharam Singh (field hockey) Dharam Singh (born January 19, 1919 – died December 5, 2001 in Chandigarh) was a famous field hockey player from India, who was the oldest Olympic gold medalist in history, when he was 45 years old as a member of the winning Indian side in 1964.
Dharam Veer Dharam-Veer is a 1977 Indian Hindi film, produced and directed by Manmohan Desai. It was Desai's second big hit of the year based on the "separated and reunited" theme (the other being Amar Akbar Anthony).
Dharamsinh Desai Institute of Technology Dharamsinh Desai Institute of Technology (DDIT)is an institute of higher learning, situated in the city of Nadiad] in Gujarat state in Western [[India. It was founded in 1968 by Dharamsinh Dadubhai Desai, who then was a Member of Parliament.
Dharanikota "Dhanyakataka' means town of rice or paddy. Dharanikota located in the Krishna Valley near Amaravati, is the site of ancient Dhanyakataka which was the capital of the kingdom of the Satavahanas who ruled in the Deccan around the 1st to 3rd centuries A.
Dharasana Satyagraha Dharasana Satyagraha was the next stage in Salt Satyagraha by Mahatma Gandhi. After making salt at Dandi, Gandhi decided to take over The Dharsana Salt Works at Dharsana in Gujrat, this was conveyed to the British Viceroy on May 4, 1930.
Dharavath Ravinder Naik Dharavath Ravinder Naik (born 15 August, 1952) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Warangal constituency of Andhra Pradesh and is a member of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) political party.
Dhardo Rimpoche Dhardo Rimpoche (1917-1990) was said by Tibetan Buddhists to be an incarnation, or tulku, of the chief abbot of Losel-ling College at Drepung Monastery, located in central Tibet. He was the second tulku in the Gelug lineage and eleventh in the Nyingma lineage.
Dharma Dharma (Sanskrit) or Dhamma (Pāli) refers to the underlying order in Nature and human life and behaviour considered to be in accord with that order. Ethically, it means 'right way of living' or 'proper conduct,' especially in a religious sense.
Dharma Drum Mountain Dharma Drum Mountain (DDM) (Chinese:法鼓山, Hanyu Pinyin: Fa Gu Shan) is an international Buddhist cultural and educational foundation founded by Chan Master Sheng-yen. The head quarter of this organization is located in Jinshan township outside of Taipei, Taiwan.
Dharma character school Dharma-character school (Chinese: 法相宗 pinyin fa xiang zong) is the pejorative name for a stream of thought that represented the Indian Yogācāra system of thought in East Asia. Its proponents preferred the title Consciousness-only school (Chinese 唯識, pinyin wei shi, also romanized as wei shih).
Dharma Mittra Sri Dharma Mittra is a Yoga teacher, and a student of Sri Swami Kailashananda Maharaj. According to Yoga Journal magazine, he's best known for creating the "Master Yoga Chart of 908 Postures," but his "influence on the yoga world extends far beyond the nearly 50,000 copies of that poster that have been printed since Mittra completed the laborious project in 1983.
Dharma Realm Buddhist Association The Dharma Realm Buddhist Association (shortened to DRBA, Chinese: 法界佛教總會, PY: Fajie Fuojiao Zonghui, formerly known as the Sino-American Buddhist Association) is an international, non-profit Buddhist organization founded by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua in 1959 to bring the orthodox teachings of the Buddha to the entire world. DRBA has branch monasteries in many countries and cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Vancouver, as well as in Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Australia.
Dharma transmission Dharma transmission (Chinese: 傳法, Chuánfǎ or 印可, Yīnkě, Korean and Japanese: Inka) is the act of passing the Zen or Chan Buddhist doctrine from a master to student. This one-to-one transmission is said to be traced over 2,500 years back to Gautama Buddha.
Dharma-dharmata-vibhaga Dharma-dharmatā-vibhāga is a short Yogācāra work, attributed to Maitreya-nātha, which discusses the distinction and correlation (vibhāga) between phenomena (dharma) and reality (dharmatā); the work exists in both a prose and a verse version and survives only in Tibetan translation. However, the Sanskrit original was reported to exist in Tibet during the 1930s by the Indian Buddhologist and explorer, Rāhula Sānkrityāyana.
Dharmakaya The Dharmakaya (lit. Truth Body or Reality Body) is a central concept in Mahayana Buddhism forming part of the Trikaya doctrine that was first expounded in the Saddharma Pundarika Sutra (The Lotus Sutra), composed in the first century BCE.
Dharmakirti Dharmakirti (circa 7th century), was an Indian scholar and one of the Buddhist founders of Indian philosophical logic. He was one of the primary theorists of Buddhist atomism, according to which, the only items considered to exist are momentary Buddhist atoms, and states of consciousness.
Dharmaśāstra Dharmaśāstra is a genre of Sanskrit texts and refers to the śāstra, or Hindu branch of learning, pertaining to dharma, religious and legal duty. The voluminous textual corpus of Dharmaśāstra is primarily a product of the Brahmanical tradition in India and represents the elaborate scholastic system of an expert tradition.
Dharmapada In Buddhist legend, Dharmapada was the son of a great architect, who completed the construction of a temple in a single night to save 1200 craftsmen from execution, and then sacrificed his own life to prevent the story from spreading.
Dharmapala In Vajrayana Buddhism, a dharmapāla (Tibetan drag-gshed) is a type of wrathful deity. The name means "Dharma-defender" in Sanskrit, and the dharmapalas are also known as the Defenders of the Law (Dharma) or the Protectors of the Law in English.
Dharmaratne Brothers Dharmaratne Brothers was an influential Sri Lankan music group, composed of the brothers Christie, Maxwell, Melroy and Ronald Dharmaratne. They were the first all family Sinhala pop group, and racked up several hits in the late '60s and early '70s.
Dharmayuddha Dharmayuddha is a Sanskrit word made up of two roots: dharma meaning righteousness, and yuddha meaning warfare. In the ancient Indian texts, Dharmayuddha refers to a war that is fought while following several rules that make the war fair.
Dharmic religion In the study of comparative religion, a dharmic religion is any religion deriving from a common ancient Indian tradition involving the concept of dharma. Dharmic religions encompass Hinduism and three other religions that have spawned from it—namely Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism.
Dharmpal Singh Dudee Chaudhary Dharmpal Singh Dudee (Devanagari:चौधरी धर्मपाल सिंह डूडी) is a journalist, social worker and author. He was born on 18 December 1940 at village Ghasola in Bhiwani district of Haryana in India.
Dharmsamrat Paramhans Swami Madhavananda Dharmsamrat Paramhans Swami Madhavananda (September 11, 1923 - October 31, 2003) who was given the title Holy Guruji by his followers, was the spiritual successor of Bhagwan Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji and Guru of Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. He was born in the village of Nipal, Pali district, Rajasthan, India.
Dharshini David Dharshini David, economist and news presenter, was born and brought up in London, England. David joined the BBC network in 2000 as a financial reporter, and can be seen on BBC News 24 in the United Kingdom, and elsewhere on its international counterpart BBC World.
Dharuk language Dharuk (also spelt Dharruk, Dharug, Daruk, and Darug) or the Sydney Language is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language. Although the term Dharuk originally referred specifically to the variety used by the Dharuk people, today the word is used to include the speech of the Eora and the Cammeraygal, with which it was mutually intelligible.
Dharwar craton The Dharwar craton in South India presents a natural cross-section of late-Archaean continental crust. There are three main structural zones: a root zone of highly heterogeneous petrology (from monzonite to granite) and texture (phenocryst accumulation), a "channel zone" where evidences of large scale magma ascent can be observed, and a zone of superficial intrusions, consisting in independent [intrusive bodies.

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