پرسان pursān P part. (in comp.) Asking, in- quiring, inquirer, inquisitive.

پهاها phāhā H s. m. 1. A flock of cotton wet with aﻌt̤r or scented water. 2. A plaster, a pledget.

پورن pūran S̱. (or pūrṇa पूर्ण) adj. Full, filled, complete, perfect, accomplished, entire, total, exact, ripe. پورن پاتر pūrn-pātr (पूर्णपात्र) s. m. A vessel filled with 256 handfuls of rice given to the superintending priest at a religious ceremony. پورن پولي pūran-polī, s. f. A kind of bread. پورن کرنا pūran karnā, To fulfil, to ac- complish, perfect, complete.

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.

پرش पुरुष purush̤ S s. m. A man, generally or individually, a male, mankind.

پنساري pansārī S̱. (from पण्य A vendible com- modity, and r. सृ Spread) s. m. A druggist.

پنچکهن pancha-khan S̱. (पंच Five, and खंड A part) adj. Consisting of five floors or stories (a house, &c.).

پرچهنا parachhnā H v. a. 1. To move a lamp or candle over the heads of a bride and bride- groom, to drive away evil spirits, propitiate good ones, &c. 2. To kindle (a fire).

پهليانا phaliyānā S̱. (r. फल) v. n. To bear fruit.

پٿني paṭnī H s. m. A ferryman. See پاٿوني.