(p. 606) paṇa a promise, a resolve (পণ রক্ষা); a wager, a stake, a bet (পাশাখেলার পণ); price (প্রাণপণ); a condition or term, a stipulation (ধনুকভাঙা পণ); compulsory dowry (esp, what is given to a bridegroom), marriage-money; a commodity; a measure of counting (= 2 গন্ডা). পণ করা v. to resolve. পণ দেওয়া v. to pay the dowry, to pay the bridegroom (or the bride) compulsory dowry or marriage-money. পণ ধরা, পণ রাখা v. to lay a wager, to bet, to stake. পণ নেওয়া v. to exact compulsory dowry or marriage-money. কন্যাপণ n. compulsory dowry or marriage-money given to the bride. বরপণ compulsory dowry or marriage-money given to the bridegroom. ̃কর n. betting tax. ̃কিয়া n. a table of reckoning by pans (পণ). ̃প্রথা n. the system of exacting dowry or marriage-money; (coll.) dowry system. ̃বদ্ধ a. bound by a promise, under pledge of. 17)

(p. 633) pākhi the bird; a blind (of a window); a spoke (of a wheel); a step or rung of a ladder. পাখি পড়ানো v. to teach or get up by rote, to cram. পাখির প্রাণ very feeble vitality. পাখির বাসা a nest; (fig.) a very disorderly place or thing (মাথাটা যেন পাখির বাসা). 44)

(p. 618) parākāṣṭhā highest excellence; extreme altitude or limit; acme, zenith; (often iron.) culmination. 24)

(p. 696) plābinī of প্লাবী । 70)

(p. 644) pāritōṣika a reward; a prize. 27)

(p. 605) paṭi1 a small strip or band of cloth, a bandage (জলপটি); a pleat of cloth for tucking with, a tuck; a strip of cloth wound round the leg (as by soldier), a puttee, a puttie (বুটপটি). পটি দেওয়া, পটি লাগানো v. to place a strip of cloth on; to bandage; to tuck with a pleat of cloth. পটি পরা v. to put on puttees. পটি মারা v. to tuck with a pleat of cloth. 14)

(p. 681) pratyākarṣaṇa counter-attraction. 10)

(p. 625) parōkṣa imperceptible or unseen but known or true, not known directly, circumstantial (পরোক্ষ প্রমাণ); indirect (পরোক্ষ উক্তি); roundabout (পরোক্ষভাবে). পরোক্ষ কর an indirect tax. পরোক্ষে, ̃ভাবে adv. behind one's back, in one's absence. পরোক্ষে নিন্দা করা to slander somebody in his absence, to backbite. 63)

(p. 606) paẏa auspiciousness, luck; good fortune. 81)

(p. 606) paṭhyamāna that which is being read or perused or studied or recited. 2)

(p. 642) pāpiẏā the Indian nightingale, the hawk-cuckoo. 27)

(p. 650) pila2 the elephant; (in chess) the bishop. 37)

(p. 652) pīḍ়na oppression, persecution, torment; forcing; insistence, pressure; chastisement; acceptance esp. in marriage (পাণিপীড়ন). পীড়ন করাv. to press, to persecute, to torment; to force; to insist, to chastise; to accept esp. in marriage. 21)

(p. 692) prahēlikā a riddle, an enigma, a puzzle, a mystery. ̃ময় a. enigmatic, riddling, puzzling, mysterious. 2)

(p. 682) pratyuttara a retort, rejoinder. প্রত্যুত্তর করা v. to retort, to answer back. 2)