Danda (disambiguation)

Danda is a punctuation character (।) used in the Devanagari script (used to write Indic languages) to mark the end of a sentence.

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
• Indian sceptre
• Walking stick (Sanskrit daṇḍa), a stick used to facilitate walking

Culture

• Danda Nata (or Danda Nacha and Danda Jatra), traditional dance festival in Indian state of Odisha
• Dandiya Raas, a religious folk dance originating from the Indian state of Gujarat
• Gillidanda, a traditional sport in the Indian subcontinent
• Dandasana, a Yoga position

Literature

• Danda (novel), a book by Nkem Nwankwo

Places

• Dandakaranya, a jungle mentioned in the Indian epic Ramayana
• Danda kingdom, a frequently featured region and kingdom in the Ramayana and Hindu mythology
• Danda Garhwa, an administrative block of Garhwa district, Jharkhand, India
• Danda Nagraja temple, a Hindu temple in Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, India
• Diba Danda, a peak in Uttarakhand, India
• Draupadi Ka Danda, two peaks in the Gangotri range of Garhwal Himalaya in Uttarakhand, India
• Paungda Danda, a hill in Nepal
• Shrawan Danda, a hill in Butwal, Nepal
• Mount Danda, in Nantou and Hualien, Taiwan

People with the name

• Danda (footballer) (born 1962), Rosângela Rocha, Brazilian footballer
• Danda Mohamed Kondeh, Sierra Leonean economist and politician
• Danda Venkata Subba Reddy, Indian professor of medicine
• Bronislav Danda (1930–2015), Czech ice hockey player
• Lankapura Dandnatha, general of Parakramabahu I of the Kingdom of Polonnaruwa
• Mahamadou Danda (born 1951), Nigerien politician and Prime Minister of Niger
• Raul Danda, an Angolan politician

See also

• All pages with titles containing Danda
• Tanda (disambiguation)
• Dandi (disambiguation)
• Danda Gopuram a 1981 Indian Malayalam-language film
• Dande Vittal, an Indian politician from Telangana
• Upayas (diplomacy), a Hindu and Jain method of diplomacy