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1836 phakira [fr. A. faqīr] var. phakīra; phakīḍa; phakiraphageḍā; phakiraphakaḍa; n. lit. "beggar"; an ascetic, specifically a Muslim one. In the Mulukī Ain, however, the term is used (as bheṣadhārī) to refer to ascetics in general, also including Śaiva jogīs and sannyāsīs (Bouillier 1978 and 1985: 201; Clark 2006: 19 n. 85). See also phakira phakaḍā. t.t.
3072 phakira phakaḍā [phakira + phakaḍā] n. generic term for mendicants. t.t.
2632 phalcā [New.] var. phale, phalacā; n. one-storeyed building open towards the street for religious or social functions or for travellers. Phalcā is little more than roofed rectangular platform, “usually a lean-to in the towns, but free-standing along the trails” (cf. Slusser 1998, vol. 1, 146). t.t.
2745 phaṃ / paṃ [New.] n. 1) container to measure grains or liquids; 2) volumetric measure (synonym to prastha and pāthi) with four kurhas in it and equivalent to a 8 mānās. t.t.
1884 phāraka n. receipt, acquittance; "A written receipt and acquittance, a deed of release from all demands, a deed of dissolution of partnership or of parcenershipp, a bill of divorcement" (Wilson 1855: 156 s.v. Fáriġ). t.t.
1943 phāraka / phārakha var. pharaphārakha, phārakhati; n. 1) a written receipt. 2) a deed of release (from obligation), acquittance. t.t.
2832 phārāma [fr. E. form] n. a form, an official form. t.t.
2263 phārchyāpatra var. phārchāpatra; n. a quitclaim deed (see also phārsepatra). t.t.
2168 pharda [P.] var. phardā, phardda; n. a written list or statement (Wilson 1855: 155 s.v. Fard). t.t.
2835 pharkāvāddī rupaiyā [fr. H. pharrukhābādī °] n. an Indian coin minted in Farrukhābād t.t.
2574 pharmāisī n. a birtā grant to members of the royal or Rāṇā family (M.C. Regmi 1978b: 857), valid only during the lifetime of the recipient (M.C. Regmi 1965: 20). t.t.
2972 phārsepatra n. a quitclaim deed (see also phārchyāpatra) t.t.
2966 pharuvā var. pharūvā; n. a mattock, hoe. t.t.
2114 phaṭke / phaḍke n. margin (often to the left) of a document where names and signatures of witnesses etc. are found. t.t.
2484 phattemubāraka / phattyamubāraka n. one of the taxes that directly accrued to the palace (rāja aṅka), collected from traders in the Kathmandu Valley to commemorate the conquest by King Prithvī Nārāyaṇa in 1768-69; in 1903, foreign commercial houses were exempted. (M.C. Regmi 1970 (No. 6): 149 ; cf. M.C. Regmi 1978: 857; M.C. Regmi 1988: 266) t.t.
2686 phā̃ṭa var. phāṭ, phāṭa, phā̃ṭ; n. “division or section of an office or a department“ (Adhikari 1984: 355). t.t.
2946 pheṭā n. turban. t.t.
2899 phikadānī var. phīkadānī; n. a spittoon. t.t.
2280 phikadāra var. phigaḍhāra; n. 1) a royal attendant carrying the king's spitting pan. 2) An object on which the king spit betel to validate certain land grants as birtā or jāgīra. From the documentary evidence it is unclear whether the king spit on the deed of grant or into a pan. t.t.
626 phikadāra birtā n. inheritable birtā grant made to persons below Brahmin castes in appreciation of services for which the lālamohara bore the mark of betel juice (phik) spat by the king (Krauskopff and Meyer 2000: 184; Michael 2012: 133; M.C. Regmi 1978: 863). t.t.
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