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Dandi (poet)
Dandi may refer to: Places * Dandi, Iran, a city in Zanjan Province * Dandi, Navsari, a village in Gujarat, India, destination of Mahatma Gandhi's Salt March * Dandi Census Town, a Census Town in Maharashtra, India * Dandi, Nigeria, a Local Government Area in Kebbi State People * Dandamis (real name Dandi or Dandi-Swami), 4th century BC Hindu philosopher * Daṇḍin or Dandi, 6th-7th century Sanskrit writer * Dandi Adigal Nayanar, Hindu saint * Dandi Daley Mackall, American Christian author Other uses * The plural of danda, a punctuation character in Indic languages * Sticks used in classical Indian dance * Dandi, one of three dinosaur mascots of NC Dinos, a Korean professional baseball team See also * Dande Dande, with its capital at Barra do Dande, is a municipality in Bengo Province in Angola. Subdivisions Dande comprises seven communes as follows. * Caxito * Barra do Dande Barra do Dande is a town, with a population of 75,000 (2014), and a co ..., a municipalit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dandi, Iran
Dandi ( fa, دندی, also Romanized as Dandī; also known as Dahandi and Dahdi) is a city in, and the capital of, Anguran District of Mahneshan County, Zanjan province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni .... At the 2006 National Census, its population was 2,547 in 658 households. The following census in 2011 counted 3,962 people in 1,018 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 4,778 people in 1,313 households. References Mahneshan County Cities in Zanjan Province Populated places in Zanjan Province Populated places in Mahneshan County {{Mahneshan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dandi, Navsari
Dandi is a village in the Jalalpore taluka, Navsari District, Gujarat, India. It is located on the coast of the Arabian Sea near the city of Navsari. The village got into worldwide prominence in 1930, when Mahatma Gandhi selected it to be the destination for the Salt March. He marched from Sabarmati (Ahmedabad) to Dandi (Navsari) with some of his followers to protest against the imposition of a tax on salt by the British Raj. Thousands of people participated, travelling on foot for 24 days from Ahmedabad to Dandi. The Government of India initiated plans to develop the Sabarmati-Dandi stretch as a tourist hub. In 2019 the National Salt Satyagraha Memorial to commemorate the Salt March of the Indian Independence Movement was opened in the village. See also *Indian independence movement *Salt March *Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial national ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dandi Census Town
Dandi Census Town is a Census Town situated at the Palghar district of Maharashtra, India. It is located 15 kilometers away from Palghar district. Demographics According to the 2011 Indian Census the town has a population of 8,942 people out of which 5,136 are males and 3,806 are females. The average human sex ratio of Dandi is 741. Transport Boisar railway station Boisar railway station is a railway station on the Western line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway The Mumbai Suburban Railway ( Marathi: मुंबई उपनगरीय रेल्वे) (colloquially called local trains or simply ... is located approximately 1 kilometers away from the "Dandi Census Town". References {{coord missing, Maharashtra Cities and towns in Palghar district Census towns in Maharashtra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dandi, Nigeria
Dandi is a Local Government Area (LGA) in Kebbi State, Nigeria, sharing a boundary with the Republic of Niger. Its headquarters are in the town of Kamba. Dandi shares a southern border with Bunza LGA. It has an area of 2,003 km and a population of 144,273 at the 2006 census. The postal code A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, PIN or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, included in a postal ... of the area is 862. References Local Government Areas in Kebbi State {{kebbi-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dandamis
Dandamis (presumably Greek rendering of "Dandi- Svami") was a philosopher, swami and a gymnosophist, whom Alexander encountered in the woods near Taxila, when he invaded India in 4th century B.C. He is also referred to as Mandanes. Biography When Alexander met some gymnosophists, who were of trouble to him. He learned that their leader was Dandamis, who lived in jungle, lying naked on leaves, near a water spring. He then sent Onescratus to bring Dandamis to him. When Onescratus encountered Dandamis in forest, he gave him the message, that ''Alexander, the Great son of Zeus, has ordered him to come to him. He will give you gold and other rewards but if you refuse, he may behead you.'' When Dandamis heard that, he did not even raise his head and replied lying in his bed of leaves. ''God the Great King, is not a source of violence but provider of water, food, light and life. Your king cannot be a God, who loves violence and who is mortal. Even if you take away my head, you cann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dandi Adigal Nayanar
Dandi Adigal Nayanar or Dandiyadigal Nayanar is the 31st Nayanar saint. Traditional hagiographies like ''Periya Puranam'' (13th century CE) and '' Thiruthondar Thogai'' (10th century CE) describe him as a great devotee of the Hindu god Shiva. Hagiographical accounts Dandi Adigal, a blind devotee of Shiva, used to often circumambulate the Shiva temple of Tiruvarur, his birthplace in the Chola Kingdom, and was found chanting Shiva Panchakshara mantra while worshipping. Many Jain structures encroached upon the premises of the Shiva temple of Tiruvarur, then a prominent Jain settlement. Dandi Adigal decided to rebuild the sacred temple tank, whose western bank was accompanied by Jain houses. As Dandi Adigal was blind, he erected a post were the earth needed to be dug and tied a rope to it. The other end of the rope was also tied to another post erected on the bank. He started digging using spade and collected mud in a basket and walked back to the bank by touching the rope and empt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dandi Daley Mackall
Dandi Daley Mackall is an American author with around 500 of her works published for adults and children. Some of her works are the ''Winnie the Horse Gentler'' series and the ''Flipside Stories'', ''The Silence of Murder'', and ''With Love, Wherever You Are'', a novel based on the stories and letters of her parents, Army doctor and Army nurse in World War II, as well as many others. She collaborated with Sigmund Brouwer and Melody Carlson to take part in creating the ''Degrees of Guilt'' series and then with Jeff Nesbit and Melody Carlson in the ''Degrees of Betrayal'' series. Other animal series include ''Backyard Horses'', ''Starlight Animal Rescue'', ''Bob the Horse'', and ''I Can Read'' series. Biography Mackall started her writing career when at ten years of age she entered and won her first writing contest in 1959. Her paper was titled "Why I Want to be Batboy for the Kansas City A's". Since then, she has published over 450 books for adults, teens, and children. She no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danda
In Indic scripts, the daṇḍa (Sanskrit: दण्ड ' "stick") is a punctuation mark. The glyph consists of a single vertical stroke. Use The daṇḍa marks the end of a sentence or line, comparable to a full stop (period) as commonly used in the Latin alphabet, and is used together with Western punctuation in most modern Indic languages. The daṇḍa and double daṇḍa are the only punctuation used in Sanskrit texts. No distinct punctuation is used to mark questions or exclamations, which must be inferred from other aspects of the sentence. In metrical texts, a double daṇḍa is used to delimit verses, and a single daṇḍa to delimit a pada, line, or semi-verse. In prose, the double daṇḍa is used to mark the end of a paragraph, a story, or section. Computer encoding The Devanagari character can be found at code point U+0964 () in Unicode. The "double daṇḍa" is at U+0965 (). The Unicode standard recommends using this character also in other Indic sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NC Dinos
The NC Dinos ( ko, NC 다이노스) are a South Korean professional baseball team based in Changwon. They are a member of the KBO League. Since 2019, their home stadium is Changwon NC Park. NC Dinos are owned by video game developer NCSoft Corporation. History On 1 July 2010, the cities of Changwon, Masan and Jinhae were integrated into one city, Changwon. As a result of the integration, Changwon became the eleventh largest city in South Korea. Afterward, Changwon drove forward the project, which attracted a baseball team in the city. On 22 December 2010, video game company NCSoft submitted a plan that it wanted to found a baseball team that would be later admitted to the Korea Baseball Organization as a member franchise. Changwon hereby became the first city having a baseball team among all the non-metropolitan cities in South Korea. In the 2012 season, NC Dinos competed in the unaffiliated Freedom Division of the Korea Baseball Futures League. On 8 May 2012, the Korea Baseb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dande
Dande, with its capital at Barra do Dande, is a municipality in Bengo Province in Angola. Subdivisions Dande comprises seven communes as follows. * Caxito * Barra do Dande Barra do Dande is a town, with a population of 75,000 (2014), and a commune in the municipality of Dande, province of Bengo, Angola. It is located at the mouth of the Dande River. The government plans to build a deep-water port at Barra do Da ... * Mabubas * Kikabo * Úcua References Populated places in Bengo Province Municipalities of Angola {{Angola-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |