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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.
1841 pañjāpatra n. a variety of lālamohara issued by a king with the impression of his palm (cf. DNA_0016_0086 and Amatya 1988: 2-3). See also keśarīpañjā. t.t.
2737 pānju var. pāniju, pāneju, pānijyu; n. 1) the attending priest of Buṅgadyo (Matsyendranātha). 2) one of thirty one Vajrācāryas and Śākyas of the saṅgha at Buṅgamatī who are entitled to serve as attendants to Buṅgadyo (Owens 1989: 408). t.t.
3000 pañcopacārapūjā [S.] n. worship ritual with five offerings (upacāra), typically including scent (gandha), flower (puṣpa), incense (dhūpa), light (dīpa) and food offering (naivedya). t.t.
2039 paramabhaṭṭā [fr. S.] var. parampaṭṭā, paramabhaṭṭa, parambhaṭṭa, parambhaṭṭi, paraṃbhātā, parāṃbhaṭṭa, pārabhātā; n. a deed, prepared by the seller, formalizing the sale of a slave. t.t.
2250 parbatiyā / parvate n. or adj. inhabitants of the hill areas. In the context of the Mulukī Ain, this is a general term to address the members of all traditionally Nepali-speaking castes originally inhabitated the hill areas of present Nepal. As Whelpton (2005: 264) has pointed out this term was also used in the nineteenth century for the Nepali language. t.t.
3087 parcā [fr. Pers.] n. a note, letter, pamphlet, report. t.t.
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