پهوکٿ phokaṭ H s. m. An indigent person.

پوي poʼe S̱. s. f. (उपादिका) A kind of vegetable. (Basella alba and rubra).

پيپا pīpā E. s. m. A pipe, barrel, cask.

پسمانده pas-mānda P part. Remaining behind; a remaining person, a surviver.

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 paras स्पर्श S̱. s. m. Touch.

پاکباز pāk-bāz P adj. Undefiled (generally, ap- plied to the mind), honest, candid, sincere.

پکهاٿا pakhāṭā H s. The horn or corner of a bow.

پهلوري phulaurī फुल्लवटी S̱. s. f. Bread or cake made of fruit and pulse, and fried in ghī or oil.

پاؤلي سٿنا pāʼo le saṭnā S̱. (dakh.) i. q. قاعدي سي قدم ڐالنا ḳāʼiﻌde se ḳadam ḍālnā, To step by rule.