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Sarthal Khera Mound

Sarthal Khera (Surathal Khera) is a large ASI-protected archaeological mound 10 km southwest of Bilari, Moradabad district, Uttar Pradesh, measuring 365 x 300 m, traditionally linked to king Surath, with occupation from Ochre Coloured Pottery to medieval times.

Sarthe

Sarthe (INSEE 72) is a department in western France, Pays de la Loire region, prefecture Le Mans; 566,733 inhabitants in 2023 across 352 communes, with 9.8 million tourist overnight stays in 2024 anchored by the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Sarton (lunar crater)

Sarton is a 69-km-diameter impact crater on the Moon at 49.30° N, 121.10° W, near the western limb, named for historian of science George Sarton; also spelled Sarton crater, near the Coulomb-Sarton region.

Sartor Resartus

Sartor Resartus is Thomas Carlyle's satirical philosophical novel, serialised from 1833 to 1834, which presents a German treatise on clothes and argues that all visible things are emblems of spirit.

Sartorius

Sartorius is a German laboratory-instrument and bioprocess-equipment group headquartered in Göttingen, founded by Florenz Sartorius in 1870, now supplying bioreactors, cell culture media, and purification products to biopharmaceutical manufacturers.

Sartorius muscle

Sartorius (musculus sartorius), the tailor's muscle, is the longest muscle in the human body, about 60 cm, running from the anterior superior iliac spine to the pes anserinus on the medial tibia, innervated by the femoral nerve L2-L3, with segmental type IV blood supply and flap and tendon-transfer surgical uses.

Sartorius Stedim Biotech

Sartorius Stedim Biotech is a French bioprocess equipment company in Aubagne, formed in 2007 when Germany's Sartorius merged Stedim S.A., a maker of disposable bag systems, with its biotechnology division.

Saru (2025 TV series)

Saru is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language TV drama on Zee TV and ZEE5, produced by Shashi Sumeet Productions, starring Mohak Matkar, Shagun Pandey, and Anushka Merchande; it follows a Rajasthani kabaddi champion studying in Mumbai.

Saru (Star Trek: Discovery)

Saru (Star Trek: Discovery), Kelpien Starfleet officer played by Doug Jones; first Kelpien in Starfleet, from Kaminar; chief science officer, first officer, captain, and later Federation ambassador who marries T'Rina.

Sarubhakta

Sarubhakta (सरुभक्त) is the pen name of Bhakta Raj Shrestha, a Nepali playwright, novelist, and poet from Pokhara who won the Madan Puraskar for Pagal Basti.

Sarugaku Dangi

Sarugaku Dangi (申楽談儀, Talks on Sarugaku) is a 1430 record of Noh master Zeami's comments on his art, written down by his second son Kanze Motoyoshi.

Saruman

Saruman the White (Curunír) is Tolkien's traitor wizard in The Lord of the Rings: first of the Istari, head of the White Council, corrupted via the palantír of Orthanc, killed by Wormtongue as Sharkey.

Sarumino

Sarumino (猿蓑, "Monkey's Raincoat") is a Japanese haikai poetry anthology published in Kyoto in 1691, compiled by Mukai Kyorai and Nozawa Bonchō under Matsuo Bashō's supervision.

Šarūnas Jasikevičius

Šarūnas Jasikevičius (Šaras), born 1976 in Kaunas, is a Lithuanian basketball coach and former point guard, Fenerbahçe head coach; four EuroLeague titles as a player, 2025 title as coach.

Šarūnas Marčiulionis

Šarūnas Marčiulionis (Raimondas Šarūnas Marčiulionis, born 1964, Kaunas), Lithuanian guard, first Soviet player in the NBA (Warriors, 1989), 1988 Olympic gold with USSR, 1992 and 1996 bronze with Lithuania, Naismith Hall of Fame 2014.

Sarunchana Apisamaimongkol (ศรัณชนา อภิสมัยมงคล)

Sarunchana Apisamaimongkol (สรัลชนา อภิสมัยมงคล), nicknamed Aye, is a Thai actress and singer under GMMTV, born 2000 in Bangkok. Known for Friend Zone, A Tale of Thousand Stars, P.S. I Hate You, and Hide & Sis; former SIZZY member and OST singer.

Saruparib

Saruparib (AZD5305) is AstraZeneca's orally bioavailable, PARP1-selective PARP inhibitor and trapper (~500-fold selectivity over PARP2) for HRR-deficient breast, ovarian, pancreatic, and prostate cancers, in Phase III EvoPAR trials.

Saruq al-Hadid

Saruq al-Hadid is an archaeological site in the dune fields south of Dubai, a major Iron Age copper-smelting center occupied from the Bronze Age into the Islamic period.

Sarus crane

Sarus crane (Antigone antigone, syn. Grus antigone), the world's tallest flying bird, a Vulnerable crane of South and Southeast Asian farmlands and wetlands; about 20,000–30,000 birds in three subspecies, threatened by wetland loss and power lines.

Sarutobi Sasuke

Sarutobi Sasuke (猿飛佐助) is a fictional ninja and leader-figure of the Sanada Ten Braves, created in the Tachikawa Bunko volume Sarutobi Sasuke (1913/1914); he trains under Tozawa Hakuunsai, serves Sanada Yukimura, and shaped the modern heroic ninja image.

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (सर्व शिक्षा अभियान)

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (सर्व शिक्षा अभियान, SSA) was India's flagship centrally sponsored scheme for universal elementary education, launched 2001–02 for children aged 6–14, implementing the RTE Act 2009, and subsumed into Samagra Shiksha in 2018.

Sarvadaman Chowla

Sarvadaman Chowla (1907–1995) was an Indian number theorist who published more than 350 papers over sixty-two years, including the Chowla–Selberg formula and the still-open Chowla conjecture.

Sarvadarshanasangraha

Sarvadarshanasangraha ("Compendium of All Philosophies") is a 14th-century Sanskrit doxography by Madhava surveying 16 philosophical systems of South India, giving their principal tenets and followers' arguments.

SarvaGram

SarvaGram (Sarvagram Solutions Private Limited) is a Pune-headquartered Indian rural lending startup founded in 2019 by Utpal Isser and Sameer Mishra, offering business, farm, home, and gold loans.

Sarvai Papanna

Sarvai Papanna (సర్వాయి పాపన్న) was a Telugu chieftain of the toddy-tapping Goud community who led a rebellion against Mughal authority in Telangana, sacked Warangal in 1708, and was executed in 1710.

Sarvajna

Sarvajna (ಸರ್ವಜ್ಞ), meaning "the one who knows all," was a Kannada wandering poet and aphorist of the sixteenth century, known for his three-line verses called tripadis.

Sarvajna's Tripadis

Sarvajna's Tripadis (ಸರ್ವಜ್ಞನ ತ್ರಿಪದಿಗಳು) are roughly 2,000 three-line Kannada wisdom verses in the tripadi meter attributed to Sarvajna, the sixteenth-century wandering poet-philosopher known as the people's poet.

Sarvam (सर्वम्) (model family)

Sarvam (सर्वम्) is a family of large language models for Indian languages built by Bengaluru startup Sarvam AI, beginning with the 2-billion-parameter Sarvam-1 in October 2024.

Sarvam AI

Sarvam AI is a Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence startup, founded in 2023 by Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar, building sovereign foundation models for Indian languages and on-premise deployment.

Sarvam AI funding

Sarvam AI funding tracks the Bengaluru AI startup's financing, including a $234 million Series B led by HCLTech in 2026 at a $1.5 billion valuation, making Sarvam one of India's AI unicorns.