DURVA: A kind of sacred grass.
DURYODHANA: The eldest of the Kaurava brothers.
DWIJA: A twice-born. A Bráhman, a Kshatriya or a Vaishya, whose investiture with the sacred thread constitutes, religiously and metaphorically a second birth.
DWITIYA: The second day of the bright or dark half of a month.
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EKÁDASHI: The eleventh day of the bright and dark halves of a month.
EKAL PER: Zizyphus jujuba.
EKÁNTARIO: Intermittent fever.
EKOTISHTA: The rites performed on the eleventh day after death.