انته پر अन्तःपुर अन्तर् Within, and पुर A town, a house antah-pur S. s. m. The inner apartments.

اپرش अ and पुरूष Man a-purush̤ S. adj. Im- potent, effeminate, unmanly.

بهوج پور bhoj-pūr भोजपुर S̱. n. prop. Name of a place.

جنک پر जनकपुर janak-pur S s. m. The metropolis of Rājā Janak.

سرپر सुरपुर sur-pur S s. m. The capital of Indra.

مدهـ پر मधुपुर madhu-pur S s. m. A name of Mathurā, q. v.

مدهـ پري मधुपुरी madhu-purī S s. f. A name of Mathurā, q. v.

نرپر नरपुर nar-pur S s. m. One of the three lokas or regions of the universe, the abode of man, the earth.

نوپر नूपुर nūpur S s. f. A ring hollowed, about a finger and a half in breadth, used as an orna- ment for the ankles and toes. (In it are bits of copper or iron, of the size of a vetch, which cause it to sound like a number of small bells, when the wearer walks).

نيپر nepur नूपुर S̱. s. f. An ornament for the toes and feet or worn on the ankles. See نوپر.

هستناپر हस्तिनापुर hastinā-pur S s. m. An- cient Dihlī, the capital of Yudhish̤ṭhira and his brethren, the remains of which still exist, about 57 miles N. E. of the modern city, on the banks of the old channel of the Ganges.

پر पुर pur S s. m. A city, a town. پرباسي pura- bāsī, Inhabitant of a city.

پرا purā पुर S̱. s. m. A large village, a town, an assemblage of habitations.

پران पुराण purāṇ S s. m. A Purāṇa or sacred and poetical work, supposed to have been com- piled or composed by the poet Vyāsa. There are eighteen acknowledged Purāṇas, comprising the whole body of Hindū theology: and, each Purāṇa treats of five topicks especially, i. e. the creation; the destruction and renovation of worlds; the genealogy of gods and heroes; the reigns of the Manus; and, the transactions of their descendants. The Purāṇas are, 1. Brah- ma; 2. Padma, or the lotus; 3. Brahmāṇḍa, or the egg of Brahmā; 4. Agni, or fire; 5. Vish̤ṇu; 6. Garuḍa, the bird or vehicle of Vish̤- ṇu; 7. Brahmavaivarta, or transformations of Brahmā; 8. Siva; 9. Linga; 10. Nārada, son of Brahmā; 11. Skanda, son of Siva; 12. Mārkaṇḍeya, so called from a sage of that name; 13. Bhavish̤yat, future or prophetick; 14. Mat- sya, or the fish; 15. Varāha, or boar; 16. Kūrma, or tortoise; 17. Vāmana, or dwarf; and 18. The Bhāgavat, or life of Krish̤ṇa, which last is by some considered as a spurious and modern work. The Purāṇas are reckoned to contain four hundred thousand stanzas. There are, also, eighteen Upapurāṇas, or simi- lar poems of inferiour sanctity and different ap- pellations; the whole constituting the popular or poetical creed of the Hindūs, and some of them, or particular parts of them, being very generally read and studied.

پرس purus पुरुष S̱. s. m. A man.