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Purah
Purah (プルア, Purua) is a Sheikah scientist in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Age of Calamity, and Tears of the Kingdom; 124 years old but de-aged by a faulty anti-aging rune, she directs the Hateno Ancient Tech Lab and later leads Lookout Landing.
Pūrākau o Kupe
Pūrākau o Kupe are Māori oral narratives about the ancestor Kupe, who pursued a giant octopus from Hawaiki and, in many iwi traditions, discovered Aotearoa New Zealand.
Purampokku Engira Podhuvudamai
Purampokku Engira Podhuvudamai (புறம்போக்கு என்கிற பொதுவுடமை), aka Purampokku, is a 2015 Tamil political action thriller by S. P. Jananathan starring Arya, Shaam, Vijay Sethupathi, and Karthika Nair, released 15 May 2015.
Purana (cicada)
Purana (Purana Distant, 1905) is an Asian cicada genus in Leptopsaltriini, subtribe Puranina, ranging from India to the Philippines; species include P. tigrina, P. guttularis, and the newly described P. cheeveeda and P. mindanaoensis, with four new genera split off in 2024.
Pūraṇa Kassapa
Pūraṇa Kassapa (Sanskrit Pūraṇa-Kāśyapa) was an Indian śramaṇa teacher of the sixth to fifth century BCE, counted first among six teachers contemporary with the Buddha and known for the doctrine of non-action.
Purana Qila
Purana Qila, the Old Fort, is a 16th-century citadel in New Delhi begun by Humayun as his capital Dinpanah in 1533 and rebuilt by Sher Shah Suri.
Purananuru
Purananuru (புறநானூறு), literally "the four hundred poems about the exterior," is a classical Tamil Sangam anthology of 400 poems on kings, war, and public life.
Puranas
The Puranas, also called Puranam, are a large corpus of Sanskrit Hindu scriptures, traditionally eighteen Mahapuranas, composed over centuries and central to Hindu narrative and cosmology.
Purandar Singha
Purandar Singha (পুৰন্দৰ সিংহ), a grandson of Rajeswar Singha, twice ruled in Assam and was the last Ahom king, deposed in 1838 as a British tributary of Upper Assam.
Purandara Dasa (ಪುರಂದರ ದಾಸ)
Purandara Dasa (ಪುರಂದರ ದಾಸ), 1484–1564, born Srinivasa Nayaka, was a Karnataka Haridasa saint-composer and disciple of Vyasaraya, called the Pitamaha of Carnatic music for devising its beginner lessons and signing songs Purandara Vittala.
Purandhi Corona
Purandhi Corona is a 170-km-diameter corona on Venus at 26.10°N, 343.50°E, in Sedna Planitia, named in 1994 after the Hindu goddess of plenty.
Purani Jeans
Purani Jeans is a 2014 Hindi coming-of-age drama directed by Tanushri Chattrji Bassu, starring Tanuj Virwani, Aditya Seal, and Izabelle Leite, about friendship in a Himachal hill town; it grossed $305,113 worldwide.
Purano Sei Diner Kotha
Purano Sei Diner Kotha (পুরানো সেই দিনের কথা) is a Bengali song written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1885, adapted from Robert Burns's "Auld Lang Syne".
Purapporul Venbamalai
Purapporul Venbamalai (புறப்பொருள் வெண்பாமாலை) is a Tamil grammar treatise on puram, the war and public-life themes of classical poetry, usually dated to the 9th century CE.
Purba Bardhaman
Purba Bardhaman (পূর্ব বর্ধমান), East Bardhaman, a West Bengal district created 7 April 2017 from Burdwan's bifurcation; headquarters Bardhaman; rice bowl of Bengal; four sub-divisions, population 4,835,532 (2011 recast).
Pūrba Champāran
Purba Champaran (पूर्वी चम्पारण), also East Champaran, is a Bihar district headquartered at Motihari, created when Champaran district split in 1971/1972; 3,968 sq km, Nepal border, Gandak rivers, 5.1 million people (2011).
Purba Medinipur
Purba Medinipur (East Medinipur), a West Bengal district created 1 January 2002 from Medinipur with headquarters at Tamluk; area 4,736 sq km, 2011 population 5,095,875, highest district literacy in the state at 87.02%, 65.5 km coastline.
Purbach (lunar crater)
Purbach is a heavily eroded 115-km complex impact crater at 25.5°S, 1.9°W on the lunar near side, adjoining Regiomontanus, with satellite craters Purbach G, W, A, C, F, and N, and namesake of USGS quadrangle LAC 95.
Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa
Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa is an Indonesian economist and former LPS chairman who served as Minister of Finance from September 2025 until his removal in a September 2026 reshuffle.
Purble Place
Purble Place: three-game educational puzzle collection (Purble Pairs, Comfy Cakes, Purble Shop) by Oberon Media, led by Jane Jensen, bundled with Windows Vista (2007) and Windows 7, removed in Windows 8 (2012).
Purcăreni
Purcăreni, a village in Micești commune, Argeș County, Romania, hosts a small rectangular Roman auxiliary fort on the Limes Transalutanus, 2nd-3rd centuries AD, largely destroyed by the Râul Doamnei and road 73; first recorded as Purcăriani in 1487.
Purcell (Mercurian crater)
Purcell is a 91-km-wide IAU-named impact crater on Mercury at 81.3°N, 146.8°W, in quadrangle H-01, named for composer Henry Purcell in 1979; it lies within the wall of a larger ancient crater imaged by MESSENGER.
Purcell effect
The Purcell effect is the enhancement of a quantum emitter's spontaneous emission rate when it is placed in a resonant cavity, described by Edward Purcell in 1946.
Purchase funnel
The purchase funnel is a marketing model of the buying process as narrowing stages, each transition measured as a conversion rate, descended from the AIDA framework of the early 1900s.
Purchase of titles and degrees (juanna)
Purchase of titles and degrees (捐纳) was the Qing dynasty's state sale of ranks, official posts, and examination qualifications, first opened in 1674 for war expenses.
Purchase order
A purchase order, also known as سفارش خرید, is a commercial document in which a buyer orders goods or services from a supplier, becoming a binding contract once accepted.
Purchase price allocation
Purchase price allocation (PPA) is the accounting exercise assigning the price paid for an acquired business to its assets and liabilities at fair value, with the remainder recorded as goodwill.
Purchase, New York
Purchase, New York is an unincorporated hamlet in the Town of Harrison, Westchester County, named from Harrison's Purchase of 1695; home to the 500-acre SUNY Purchase campus and the Neuberger Museum of Art, with estate-scale housing and ZIP 10577.
Purchasing
Purchasing is the transactional half of procurement that buys an organization's goods and services, from purchase order through receiving and payment, often absorbing over half of company turnover.
Purchasing power
Purchasing power is the quantity of goods and services that a unit of money can buy; it falls when prices rise and rises when prices fall.