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Pralaya of Medang
The Pralaya of Medang (Pralaya Medang) was the 1016 surprise attack that destroyed the Medang palace in East Java, killed King Dharmawangsa Teguh, and ended Old Mataram.
Pralayollas
Pralayollas (প্রলয়োল্লাস, "The Exultation of Destruction") is a Bengali poem by Kazi Nazrul Islam that celebrates an impending revolution in colonial India, opening his debut collection Agnibina (1922).
Pralayshikha
Pralayshikha (প্রলয়শিখা, "The Doomsday Flame") is a collection of poems and songs by Kazi Nazrul Islam, published in Kolkata in 1930 and soon proscribed by the British.
Pralhad Joshi
Pralhad Venkatesh Joshi (born 1962) is a BJP politician, five-time Lok Sabha MP from Dharwad, Karnataka, and Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, New and Renewable Energy, and, since July 2026, Education (additional charge after Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation); earlier Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Coal and Mines, 2019–2024.
Pralhad Keshav Atre
Pralhad Keshav Atre (प्रल्हाद केशव अत्रे), known as Acharya Atre, was a Marathi writer, playwright, journalist, and filmmaker who led the Samyukta Maharashtra movement that created Maharashtra state in 1960.
Pralidoxime
Pralidoxime (2-PAM, contrathione, protopam), a pyridinium aldoxime discovered in 1955, reactivates organophosphate-inhibited acetylcholinesterase; the only FDA-approved oxime for OP poisoning, given with atropine, though trial evidence of benefit is contested.
Praline
Praline, from French praslin, names three distinct confections: French caramelized nuts and praliné paste, Belgian filled chocolates since Neuhaus 1912, and the soft cream-and-pecan New Orleans patty.
Prallethrin
Prallethrin (CAS 23031-36-9) is a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide, structurally closest to natural pyrethrin I, used in mosquito coils, vaporizers, and aerosols for quick knockdown of household insects; EPA PC Code 128722, IRAC Group 3A.
Pralsetinib
Pralsetinib (Gavreto, BLU-667) is an oral selective RET kinase inhibitor approved by the FDA in September 2020 for RET fusion-positive NSCLC; EU authorization was withdrawn in 2024.
Pram (band)
Pram: Birmingham experimental band (formed 1988), Rosie Cuckston-fronted post-rock/exotica group on Too Pure and Domino; albums Helium, Sargasso Sea, Dark Island, The Moving Frontier, Across the Meridian.
PRAM-in-HYPO study
PRAM-in-HYPO (NCT05960604) is a recruiting Turkish observational trial of 660 hypertensive surgical patients testing Pressure Recording Analytical Method (MostCare) hemodynamic parameters, including cardiac reserve and efficiency, against hypotension using passive leg raising.
Pramana (प्रमाण)
Pramāṇa (प्रमाण) is the Sanskrit epistemological term for a means of valid knowledge, producing true cognition (pramā). Schools differ on the count: Cārvāka accepts only perception, Buddhism two, Nyāya four, Mīmāṃsā and Vedānta six, including perception, inference, and testimony.
Pramatha Chaudhuri
Pramatha Chaudhuri, also known as Pramathanath Chaudhuri and writing as Birbal, was a Bengali writer and critic who championed colloquial prose and edited the magazine Sabujpatra, founded in 1914.
Pramatha Lal Sen
Pramathalal Sen (প্রমথলাল সেন), known as Naluda, was a Bengali Brahmo philosopher, editor, and missionary of Keshub Chunder Sen's New Dispensation, remembered for the doctrines of sahaja-jñāna and Jivana-Veda.
Prambanan
Prambanan, also called Candi Loro Jonggrang, is a ninth-century Hindu temple complex on Java, Indonesia, and the largest temple compound dedicated to Shiva in the country.
Prambanan Temple Compounds
Prambanan Temple Compounds, also called Loro Jonggrang, is a ninth-century Hindu and Buddhist temple complex on Java, Indonesia, with 508 stone temples and UNESCO World Heritage status.
PRAME
PRAME, or Preferentially Expressed Antigen in Melanoma, is a human cancer-testis antigen discovered in 1997, expressed in melanoma and leukemia and a target of immunotherapies in Phase 3 trials.
Pramehamihira Taila
Pramehamihira Taila (Prameha mihira taila) is a classical Ayurvedic medicated sesame-oil formulation from Bhaishajya Ratnavali, AFI 8:31, with over 40 ingredients, dosed 6-12 g orally or as abhyanga, for prameha and urinary disorders.
Pramerica Real Estate Capital
Pramerica Real Estate Capital (PRECap) is a series of European real estate debt funds within PGIM Real Estate, part of Prudential Financial, managed from London since 2010.
Pramila Jayapal
Pramila Jayapal (born 1965, Chennai, India) is the Democratic U.S. Representative for Washington's 7th District since 2017, first South Asian American woman in the House, former Congressional Progressive Caucus chair, and lead House sponsor of Medicare for All.
Pramipexole
Pramipexole (Mirapex, Mirapexin, Sifrol) is a non-ergot dopamine agonist, D3-preferring, FDA-approved in 1997 for Parkinson disease and 2006 for restless legs syndrome; dosed up to 4.5 mg/day ER, with sleep attacks, impulse control disorders, and augmentation as key risks.
Pramod Boro
Pramod Boro is an Indian politician from Assam who serves as president of the United People's Party Liberal and represents Assam in the Rajya Sabha for 2026 to 2032.
Pramod K. Srivastava
Pramod K. Srivastava is an American cancer immunologist who directs the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at UConn Health and pioneered heat shock protein cancer vaccines.
Pramod K. Varshney
Pramod K. Varshney, born 1952, is an Indian-born American electrical engineer, Distinguished Professor at Syracuse University, best known for pioneering distributed detection and data fusion theory.
Pramod Kumar Chandravanshi
Pramod Kumar Chandravanshi is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and minister in the Government of Bihar, holding the mining and geology and art and culture portfolios.
Pramod Mahajan (प्रमोद वेंकटेश महाजन)
Pramod Mahajan (प्रमोद वेंकटेश महाजन, 1949–2006), BJP general secretary, union minister under Vajpayee, and India's pioneering election strategist behind the failed 2004 "India Shining" campaign; shot dead by his brother Pravin in Mumbai.
Pramod Reddy
Pramod Sangi Reddy is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan known for measuring radiative heat transfer between surfaces separated by nanometer gaps.
Pramod Sawant
Pramod Pandurang Sawant, BJP politician and Chief Minister of Goa since 19 March 2019 (11th CM, succeeding Manohar Parrikar), MLA for Sanquelim since 2012, former assembly Speaker, re-elected in 2022.
Pramod Tiwari
Pramod Tiwari is an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress, a Rajya Sabha member representing Rajasthan since 2022 and its Deputy Congress Leader since 2023.
Pramodhawardhani
Pramodhawardhani was a queen of the Medang kingdom in central Java, daughter of Maharaja Samaratungga of the Buddhist Sailendra dynasty, who married the Hindu Rakai Pikatan.