پانڐي panḍe S̱. (पंडित) s. m. A title of Brāhmans; a schoolmaster.

پتهرچٿا patthar chaṭā S̱. 1. s. m. Name of a sort of greens. 2. A skinflint. 3. Name of a ser- pent. 4. Name of a fish. 5. adj. One attach- ed to his own house, who remains there even in distress.

پاٿهـ سالا पाठशाला pāṭh-sālā S s. f. A school, a college.

پري पुरी purī S s. f. A city, a town.

پربس par-bas परवश्य S̱. adj. Depending on

پينالا painālā प्रणाल S̱. s. m. A gutter, a spout.

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.

پتنگا patangā पतंग S̱. s. m. A moth.

پرگاه pargāh P s. Sticks and straw; a worthless thing.

پهانسي phāṅsī पाश S̱. s. f. A noose, a loop, halter; strangulation. پهانسي پڙناياپرنا phāṅsī -paṛnā or -parnā, v. n. To be hanged. پهانسي دينا phāṅsī denā, v. a. To strangle, to hang. پهانسي لگانا phāṅsī lagānā, v. a. To kill oneʼs self by strangling.