ID | Word | Notes | Type |
1954 | pañca | [S.] var. paṃca; n. 1) local council consisiting of five or more members. 2) member of a pañcāyata or local council (cf. M.C. Regmi 1978: 228; Whelpton 2005: 264; Whelpton 1991: 285). | t.t. |
2777 | pañcabali | [S.] n. the sacrifice of a set of five different animals; concrete sets differ according to the occasion and tradition involved, one of the common sets includes a cock, a drake, a he-goat, a ram and a he-buffalo. | t.t. |
2362 | pañcagavya | [S.] var. pañcagavye; n. a mixture of the five products of a cow (milk, curd, ghee, urin and dung); often used for ritual purification. | t.t. |
1906 | pañcakhata | n. a generic term for heinous crimes (see e.g. M.R. Pant 2002: 134; Whelpton 1991: 285). | t.t. |
2417 | pañcakīrti | var. pañcakīrte, pañcakṛti; n. 1) decided by the five village notables. 2) price determined by the five village notables. | t.t. |
1988 | pañcamahāpātaka | [S.] n. five grave sins or offenses causing loss of caste, enumerated as: killing a Brahmin, drinking intoxicating liquor, theft, committing adultery with the wife of one's teacher or elder, and associating with anyone guilty of these crimes (Manusmṛti 11.257) (Olivelle 2015: 315). | t.t. |
2635 | pañcamahāpātakī | [S.] n. person guilty of having committed one of the five grave sins or offenses causing loss of caste (pañcamahāpātaka). | t.t. |
2641 | pañcamahāyajña | [S.] n. lit. "five great sacrifices", daily observances to be performed by a Brahmin householder conceived as the sacrifices to brahman (by studying the Veda), to the gods (by performing fire sacrifice), to the forefathers (by performing ancestor rituals), to men (by feeding Brahmins and attending to guests), and to the beings (by food offerings) (Kane 1968–1977, II: 696–704). | t.t. |
2744 | pañcāmṛta | [S.] n. the "five nectars of immortality"; a mixture of milk, yoghurt, ghee, honey and sugar. | t.t. |
2481 | pañcāṅga | [S.] n. lit. "having five limbs"; almanach, calender listing for each solar day the five calendric parameters of lunar day (tithi), weekday (vāra), lunar mansion (nakṣatra), yoga and karaṇa. | t.t. |
2706 | pañcapallava | [S.] n. "five leaves", set of leaves of five trees (often aśvattha, vaṭa, āmra,
udumbara and pākharī, but lists may diverge sometimes including campaka), used as standard ingredient in rituals (Zotter 2018: 472).
| t.t. |
2817 | pañcapatākā | [S.] n. lit. "the five flags", set of small flags in five different colors used in Newar rituals. | t.t. |
2854 | pañcapātra | [S.] var. paṃcapātro; n. a set of "five vessels" for ācamana consisting of two small water vessels, two small spoons (ācamanī) and one flat plate (thālī). | t.t. |
2675 | pañcaratna | [S.] n. "five jewels", set of five precious stones / gems (pearls, diamonds, garnet, sapphire and corals) used as standard ingredient in rituals, typically in the form of ground powder. | t.t. |
2815 | pañcasūtra | [S.] thread made of strings of five different colours, used in rituals (New. pasūkā). | t.t. |
2673 | pañcāyana | [S.] var. paṃcāyaṇa, paṃcāyeṇa; n. group of five deities, typically Gaṇeśa, Devī, Sūrya, Viṣṇu and Śiva. | t.t. |
2643 | pañcāyātī maṭha | [S.] n. a 'collective' monastery (maṭha) of the Nātha Yogīs whose head (called pīra, mahanta, pīramahanta or rāja) is elected for a limited period of time and not for life as in a 'private' monastery (nijī maṭha). These maṭhas do not belong to a particular pantha but to the Nāthas as a community. They are in charge of the cult of the pātradevatā (Bouillier 2017: 66f. and passim). | t.t. |
2526 | paṇḍitarāja | [S.] "king of scholars". A honorific title bestowed on a distinguished Sanskrit scholar or poet by a king or an academic institution. | t.t. |
2894 | paniũ / panyũ | var. puniũ, puniyā̃, panīñā; n. a flat spoon used for ladling out rice. | t.t. |
2944 | panjā | var. paṃjā; n. glove. | t.t. |