Danda (disambiguation)
Appearance
Look up danda in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Danda may also refer to:
Stake and law
- Daṇḍa (Hindu punishment), punishments for criminal activity in Hindu law
- Indian Penal Code translation in Hindi Bharatiya Danda Samhita भारतीय दण्ड संहिता
- Indian sceptre
- Walking stick (Sanskrit daṇḍa), a stick used to facilitate walking
Culture
- Danda nata (Danda Nacha / Danda Jatra) traditional dance festival in Indian state of Odisha
- Dandiya Raas A religious folk dance originating from Indian state of Gujarat.
- Gillidanda a traditional sport in Indian subcontinent
- Danda Gopuram a 1981 Indian Malayalam film
- Dandasana, a Yoga position.
Literature
- Danda is a punctuation character (।) used in the Devanāgarī script to mark the end of a sentence.
- Danda (novel), a book by Nkem Nwankwo
Places
- Khar Danda, a fishing village located in Mumbai, India
- Danda Garhwa, an administrative block of Garhwa district, Jharkhand state, India
- Danda Shah Bilawal a village in Punjab, Pakistan
- Danda Mountain, in Taiwan
- Dandakaranya a jungle mentioned in Indian epic Ramayana
- Danda Kingdom, a frequently featured region in Hindu mythology
- Danda Nagraja temple in Pauri Garhwal district India.
- Lakuri Danda a village in Nepal
- Bhattedanda a village in Nepal
- Bhattarai Danda a City in Syangja District in Nepal
- Ramnagar Danda a village in Rishikesh, Dehradun district in the state of Uttarakhand in India.
- Shahidnagar Danda Nepal
- Draupadi Ka Danda two peaks in the Gangotri range of Garhwal Himalaya in Uttarakhand, India.
- Dande Darpakhel a village in North Waziristan in Pakistan.
- Danda Bazar Nepal
- Shrawan Danda a hill in Nepal
- Bhalayadanda a village in Nepal
- Diba Danda peaks in Uttarakhand, India.
- Paungda Danda a hill in Nepal
- Danda Garhwa administrative blocks of Garhwa district, Jharkhand state, India.
People with the name
- Bronislav Danda (1930–2015), Czech ice hockey player
- Danda Mohamed Kondeh, Sierra Leonean economist and politician
- Mahamadou Danda (born 1951), Nigerien politician and Prime Minister of Niger
- Danda (footballer) (born 1962), Rosângela Rocha, Brazilian footballer
- Lankapura Dandnatha
- Raul Danda an Angolan politician.
- Danda Venkata Subba Reddy a professor of medicine in India
- Danda Mohamed Kondeh Sierra Leonean economist and politician