Documenta Nepalica

Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Pre-modern Nepal
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ID Word Notes Type
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.
2776 phosī [new.] var. phosi, phvasi; n. a large copper vessel used for distilling rice spirits. t.t.
2315 phukādāma n. a monetary unit of small denomination equivalent to 1/4 of a dāma (NBŚ s. v. phukādāma). However, Turnbull (1992: 46) gives the value of it as 1/2 of a dāma. t.t.
2107 phūlapātī [fr. S. phulla + patra] n. lit. "flowers and leaves", 1) a set of plants worshipped during the Baḍā Dasaĩ festival and introduced into the worship arena on the seventh day of the bright fortnight of Āśvina. 2) the seventh day of the Baḍā Dasaĩ festival; see also patrikā. t.t.
2847 phulī var. phuli; n. 1) a nose ornament worn on the outside of one nostril. 2) the hole in the hookah bowl into which the pipe-stem is inserted. t.t.
2668 phuru n. wooden cup for drinking tea, especially used by the Bhoṭe community. t.t.
3095 pichāhi var. pichāi; n. 1) a tax levied in a newly conquered area (M.C. Regmi 1975: 202), probably from pichā (cf. Turner 1931: s.v. pichā = refuge, shelter; pichā parnu = to surrender, to submit; pichā linu = to take under one's protection); 2) in gharahi-pichahi, a levy collected from each household in Kumaon (M.C. Regmi 1988: 104). t.t.
2418 piṇḍa [fr. S.] n. rice-balls offered to ancestors during the śrāddha rites. t.t.
2394 pīra [P.] n. 1) a venerable old man, a spiritual guide. 2) a Muslim saint. 3) (esp. in the Nātha tradition) used as title for the head of important maṭha (Bouillier 2017: 60 and passim). t.t.
2644 pīramahanta [P. pīra + S. mahanta] var. pīramahaṃta; n. (esp. in the Nātha tradition) title of the head of a monastery (maṭha), esp. a pañcāyātī maṭha (cf. Bouillier 2017: 60 and passim). t.t.
2441 piśācacaturdaśī [S.] New. pasācavadasa, pāsā caḥrhe; n. fourteenth of the dark fortnight of the month of Caitra and the festival held on that day. t.t.
2917 pistola / pistaula [E.] var. pīstula; n. pistol. t.t.
2255 pīṭha [S.] n. seat of a deity. t.t.
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