ID | Word | Notes | Type |
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. |
2722 | parvānā | [fr. P.] var. paravānā, parwana, parwanna; n. a letter or an order from a person in superior position. “An order. A letter from a man in power to a dependant.“ (Adhikari 1984: 354); "order, letter from a person in power to a dependant, warrant or letter of authorization" (Michael 2012: 133); "an order; a written precept or command" (Stiller 1981: 381) | t.t. |
2535 | paścima tarphakā kamyāṃḍiṅ janarala | n. western commanding general; the most senior of the four commanding generals (kamyāṃḍāra janarala), third in the Rāṇā hierarchy and second in the Rāṇā roll of succession; also known as jaṅgī lāṭha; in charge of the Jaṅgī Aḍḍā (cf. Kumar 1967: 72, 88, 97f., 166). | t.t. |
2158 | pasuī | var. pasui; n. lit. "the entered (one)".
According to Fezas 1986: 174 (drawing a parallel to rakhuī, the 'kept' mistress) probably a slave concubine. | t.t. |
2660 | pāsukājhyāḥ | n. a kind of window with a row of five openings named after pāsukā – the five threads used in a puja. The openings have shutters or a metal veil. Characteristic is a dividing middle bar. Window for first floor of temples, āgãchẽ, palaces, bāhāḥs, and rich residences (Gutschow et al. 1987: 209). (#new#RS) | t.t. |
2591 | pasuvana | n. a compensation to be paid to an aggrieved husdband by his wife's paramour. | t.t. |
2781 | patāḥ | [New.] n. flag; banner; narrow oblong cloth or silver strip that is hung from the top of a temple or a yaḥsĩ (ceremonial pole). | t.t. |
2487 | pāṭha | [S.] n. recitation of a text in a ritual context. | t.t. |
1975 | pāthī | var. pāthi; n. 1) a volumetric unit equivalent to 4.546 litres comprising of 8 mānās with 20 pāthīs in one muri. 2) a container for grains having a volume of one pāthī. | t.t. |
2266 | patiyā | n. a penalty through which one keeps or regains one's caste status. | t.t. |
2393 | pāto | [fr. S. paṭṭa] var. pāṭe, pāṭā, pāte; n. 1) a large plot of field; evenly-plane widespread plot of land. 2) an pākho land holding in the hill region, including Kathmandu Valley, half of a hale holding in size (M.C. Regmi 1999: 235; M.C. Regmi 1988: 269), bigger than kodāle hence could be ploughed by an oxen. | t.t. |
2520 | patra | [S.] n. letter; document, deed; accounts. | t.t. |
2818 | patrikā | [S.] also known as navapatrikā; n. a set of nine plants worshipped during the Baḍā Dasaĩ festival and introduced into the worship arena on the seventh day of the bright fortnight of Āśvina; see also phūlapātī. | t.t. |
609 | paṭṭā | n. lease (Turner 1931: s.v.); a written deed of lease (Adhikari 1984: 354); title deed to land (Michael 2012: 133; cf. also M.C. Regmi 1978: 228; M.C. Regmi 1999: 235: “A land-allotment certificate in the Tarai region“). | t.t. |
2277 | paṭṭī | [fr. S. patti] n. a squad headed by a subedāra in the Nepalese Army. | t.t. |
2729 | paṭukā | n. piece of cloth wrapped around the waist, girdle. | t.t. |