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Pursuit of Happiness (film)
Pursuit of Happiness is a 2003 independent romantic comedy directed by John Putch, written by John Zaring, starring Frank Whaley and Annabeth Gish, released by Showcase Entertainment, running 1 hour 33 minutes, and distinct from The Pursuit of Happyness.
Pursuit of Jade (逐玉)
Pursuit of Jade (逐玉), aka Zhu Yu: Hisui no Kimi, is a 2026 40-episode Chinese costume romance drama adapted from Tuanzi Laixi's Jinjiang novel, starring Zhang Linghe and Tian Xiwei in a fake-marriage love story; premiered March 6, 2026 on Tencent Video, iQIYI, and Netflix.
Pursuit predation
Pursuit predation, or coursing, is an active-chase hunting strategy (cheetah, lion, fox) distinct from ambushing and group hunting; pursuit predators take smaller, slower prey and hold biomechanical edges in power, acceleration, and deceleration.
Pursuit Special
The Pursuit Special, known as the V8 Interceptor, is the black modified Ford Falcon XB GT Coupe driven by Max in the Mad Max films.
Puru
Puru (पूरु) is a king of Indian tradition, the youngest of Yayati's five sons, who exchanged his youth for his father's old age and founded the Paurava dynasty.
Puru Gupta
Puru Gupta is an Indian entrepreneur who co-founded and leads as CEO True Elements, a Pune-based healthy breakfast brand that Marico acquired a majority stake in during 2022.
Puru Jena
Puru Jena, full name Purusottam Jena, is a condensed matter physicist and Distinguished Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, known for atomic clusters, hydrogen storage, and penta-graphene.
Puru tribe
The Puru (पुरु) were a Rigvedic tribe of the Punjab, one of five major Arya tribes named in the Rigveda, who fought on the losing side of the Battle of the Ten Kings.
Puruchuco
Puruchuco is an archaeological zone in the Ate district of Lima, Peru, whose restored adobe palace housed the local Ichma ruler and later the Inca representative in the Rímac valley.
Purugupta
Purugupta was a Gupta emperor of the late fifth century CE, known only from seals of his successors, which name him as son of Kumaragupta I.
Puruhá
The Puruhá were an indigenous people and archaeological culture of the central Ecuadorian Andes, centered on Riobamba and the Guano river basin until the sixteenth-century conquests.
Purulia district (পুরুলিয়া জেলা)
Purulia district (পুরুলিয়া জেলা), West Bengal's westernmost district, formed 1 November 1956 from Manbhum; 6,259 sq km, 2.93 million people (2011), agrarian economy, Chhau culture, driest district in the state.
Purus
Purus (Rio Purus), major whitewater tributary of the Amazon/Solimoes rising in Peru, about 3,380 km long, basin 375,458 km2, discharge ~8,500 m3/s; only major Amazonian tributary with an undammed watershed.
Purusa (crater on Rhea)
Purusa is an IAU-named impact crater on Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon, named for the Hindu primordial being from whom the cosmos was formed; it lies in Rhea's southern hemisphere on the Zicum quadrangle map.
Puruṣārtha (पुरुषार्थ)
Puruṣārtha (पुरुषार्थ), also purushartha, is the Hindu doctrine of the four goals of human life: dharma, artha, kāma, and mokṣa, with dharma pre-eminent and mokṣa the ultimate ideal.
Purusha (पुरुष)
Purusha (पुरुष), in Sāṃkhya philosophy, is pure consciousness: an eternal, inactive, quality-less witness distinct from prakṛti. Plural purushas, known by inference, gain experience and liberation through contact with Nature; distinct from the Vedic cosmic Purusha Sukta being.
Purusha Sukta (पुरुषसूक्तम्)
Purusha Sukta (पुरुषसूक्तम्), Rigveda hymn RV 10.90, describes creation through the sacrifice of a cosmic Person and contains the Rigveda's only passage naming the four varnas.
Purushanda
Purushanda, also known as Purushhattum, was a prominent city-kingdom of central Anatolia attested from about 1950 to 1200 BC and known for its "great king."
Purushothamudu (పురుషోత్తముడు)
Purushothamudu (పురుషోత్తముడు) is a 2024 Telugu action drama directed by Rom Bhimana, starring Raj Tarun and Hasini Sudhir; released 26 July 2024, streaming on aha since 29 August 2024.
Purushottam Agrawal
Purushottam Agrawal (born 1955) is an Indian scholar of Hindi literature, critic, and novelist known for his work on the poet Kabir and his concept of vernacular modernity.
Purushottam Laxman Deshpande (पुरुषोत्तम लक्ष्मण देशपांडे)
Purushottam Laxman Deshpande (पुरुषोत्तम लक्ष्मण देशपांडे), known as Pu La (1919–2000), was a Marathi humorist, playwright, actor, musician, and orator; author of Vyakti ani Valli and Batatyachi Chawl, Sahitya Akademi 1965, Padma Bhushan 1990.
Purushottama Bharati I
Purushottama Bharati I, also written Puroshottama Bharati I, was the 15th Jagadguru of the Sringeri Sharada Peetham from 1408 to 1448, blessed emperor Devaraya, and received the village of Harihalli in 1446.
Purushottama Bharati II
Purushottama Bharati II was the 19th Jagadguru of the Sringeri Sharada Peetham from 1479 to 1517, blessed by emperor Krishnadeva Raya before his 1515 Kalinga campaign.
Purushottama Deva
Purushottama Deva (ପୁରୁଷୋତ୍ତମ ଦେବ), styled Vira Pratapa and titled Gajapati, was a Suryavamsi Gajapati emperor of Odisha who ruled from 1467 to 1497, after defeating his brother Hamvira's challenge.
Purushottama Gajapati's Kanchi expedition
Purushottama Gajapati's Kanchi expedition (पुरुषोत्तम गजपति युद्ध) was a campaign by Gajapati Purushottama Deva of Odisha against Saluva Narasimha of Kanchi, fought after 1486 over a refused marriage.
Purva Mimamsa Sutras
The Purva Mimamsa Sutras, also known as the Mimamsa Sutra, is a Sanskrit text attributed to Jaimini that defines dharma as knowable only from Vedic injunction.
Purvanchal (पूर्वांचल)
Purvanchal (पूर्वांचल) is the eastern region of Uttar Pradesh, India, centered on Varanasi and Gorakhpur, and the name of a proposed new state repeatedly raised in state politics.
Purvanchal Expressway (पूर्वांचल एक्सप्रेसवे)
The Purvanchal Expressway (पूर्वांचल एक्सप्रेसवे), originally the Lucknow-Azamgarh-Ballia Expressway, is a 341 km six-lane expressway in Uttar Pradesh, India, from Lucknow to Ghazipur, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in November 2021.
Purvas (पूर्व)
The Purvas (पूर्व) are fourteen lost Jain texts, held to contain the oldest layer of Mahavira's teaching within the extinct twelfth Anga, the Drstivada, surviving only in fragments.
Purvesh Khatri
Purvesh Khatri is an American computational medicine researcher and systems immunologist at Stanford University, known for blood transcriptomic signatures of sepsis and for co-founding Inflammatix, whose TriVerity sepsis test the FDA cleared in 2025.