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Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Pre-modern Nepal
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ID Word Notes Type
1855 prasāda [S.] n. offering material blessed by a deity or reverend being. t.t.
2089 praśasti [S.] n. poetic eulogy, often functions as intitulatio in documents. t.t.
2090 praśastisau [S.] var. prasastisauṃ; n. phrase used in copies of documents to indicate that there is a praśasti in the original which has been left out in the copy. t.t.
2656 prastha [S.] n. 1) a partic. weight and measure of capacity (= 32 Palas or = ¼ of an Āḍhaka; or = 16 Palas = 4 Kuḍavas = ¼ of an Āḍhaka; or = 2 Śarāvas; or = 6 Palas; or = 1/16 of a Droṇa) (Monier-Williams 1964: 699). 2) A volumetric unit; 32 prasthas = 1 mānikā (Malla 2000: 386). Also called paṃ or paṃchi, it is also mentioned as pāthī. A tradition of accepting a measure of 4 kuḍa/kuḍavas is equivalent to 1 prastha has continued from the ancient to medieval period and is still being accepted today (Ḍhuṅgela and Pradhānāṅga: 236). (#new#RS) t.t.
1074 prati ppn. lit "to, for", besides "-ke" or "-kai" used to indicate the adressee of a document (cf. Pant & Pierce 1989: 11). t.t.
2265 prāyaścitta [S.] n. ceremony of penance undertaken by a polluted person for absolution. Cf. patiyā. t.t.
2787 preta n. ethereal form assumed by a dead man during the period between death and union with his or her ancestors (pitṛ) (Gutschow and Michaels 2005: 215). t.t.
2344 pūjā [S.] var. pujā; n. 1) worship, honour. 2) formal worship ritual of a revered being with offerings. t.t.
2343 pūjārī / pūjāhārī var. pujārī, pujāhārī; n. person formally appointed to conduct the worship (pūjā) of a deity and therewith earning one's livelyhood, temple priest. t.t.
2084 purjā n. receipt; may be signed and handed over by the jagirdāra to a tenant on receiving his rent (Adhikari 1984: 74 n) t.t.
1883 purjī [fr. P. purja] var. purji, pūrjī; n. 1) slip of paper, note. 2) formal letter written by a government institution or an official to another institution or to a person. t.t.
2716 pūrṇimānta n. a scheme of reckoning time in lunar months according to which months end on the full-moon day (pūrṇimā) so that waning fortnights precede waxing ones; in Nepal normally used in Vikrama Samvat (VS) era dates of the Śāha period. t.t.
1936 purohita / pureta [fr. S. purohita] var. prohita, prohīt; n. 1) house-priest called to carry out domestic rituals, chaplain. 2) house-priest and principal advisor of the king; cf. rājapurohita. 3) generic term for priests officiating in rituals. t.t.
2404 purohityāī̃ var. purohiṭāī, purohītyāñī, prohityāī, prohītāī; n. the office of priest. t.t.
2365 pūrva tarphakā kamyāṃḍiṅ janarala var. purva tarphakā kamyāṃḍīṅga janarala; n. eastern commanding general; fourth in the Rāṇā hierarchy and third in the Rāṇā roll of succession. t.t.
1902 pustakakhānā var. postakakhānā; also pustakakoṭhā; n. archive of books and manuscripts at the royal palace in Kathmandu; "It was the Government archives where old manuscripts and books were preserved. It was probably the same Pustak Kotha which was referred to as the Darbar Library by some later scholars, such as Bhagwanlal Indraji and Hara Prasad Sastri. One Pandit and a number of Tahluwas were in-charge-of it." (Adhikari 1984: 92). t.t.
2458 pyāja khāni n. lit. "[a fee] in order to consume onion"; a fee to be paid by a plaintiff to the soldiers or bailiffs sent from the government office in order to arrest the defendant upon plantiff's request. According to the Mulukī Ain (MA-KM 1854 41.6-8), a plaintiff is required to pay the soldiers or bailiffs who are deployed to arrest the defendant, a fee of 2 ānās (in cash or in form of raw food (sidhā). The context of the Mulukī Ain suggests that this fee is paid to the soldiers or bailiffs to cover for food expenses when they are sent on duty to arrest the defendant of a legal dispute upon the plaintiff's request. t.t.
1077 rahata-bahata var. rahatā-bahatā; rahata (var. rahate): properties left behind by refugees, migrants, or people enslaved after failing to pay taxes or fines, bahata: properties brought by refugees from other places (Dabaral 1988: 134); bahata: "unclaimed property" (Michael 2012: 129). t.t.
2431 rāī var. rāi; n. 1) ethnonym, "collective term for a larger number of different Kiranti groups living west of the Limbus in the eastern hills" (Whelpton 2005: 264), also Khambu (Schlemmer 2010: 43); 2) derived from the title "rāya" given by the Sens of Makwanpur to their Kiranti ministers (Schlemmer 2010: 48), title for the village headmen in Kiranti communities (M.C. Regmi 1978: 229 ; cf. M.C. Regmi 1978: 864); 3) a position at the subbā's court in Pallo Kirāta, appointed by and ranking below the subbā (Sagant 2008: 439; Caplan 2000: 27). t.t.
2612 raibandī n. a system of redistribution of rice-land among local tenants in proportion to the size of their families (see M.C. Regmi 1978: 113-114). t.t.
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