(p. 681) pratyāẏana attestation. প্রত্যায়িত a. attested. 23)

(p. 667) pōṣṭā one who or that which brings up or rears or nourishes. 23)

(p. 629) palānna a highly spiced dish of rice and meat boiled in clarified butter, pilau. 23)

(p. 654) pubāla, pubāli, pubē coming or blowing from the east, eastern. 26)

(p. 614) paẏōdhara the cloud; the mammary gland of women; the coconut. পয়োধরী, পয়োধরা n. a woman (esp. one having well-shaped breasts). 14)

(p. 667) pōlā2 polo. 16)

(p. 688) prasū (chiefly used as a sfx. and in an adjectival sense) mother, progenitress. a. producing (স্বর্ণপ্রসূ = auriferous). 47)

(p. 669) pauṣa Paus, the ninth month of the Bengali calendar from mid December to mid January. ̃পার্বণ n. the festival of preparing and offering sweet pies made of new rice on the last day of the month of Paus. ̃সংক্রান্তি n. the last day of the month of Paus. পৌষালি a. relating to or grown in or performed in the month of Paus. 6)

(p. 652) pukura a pond, a tank, a pool. পুকুর কাটা v. to excavate a pond. পুকুর ঝালানো v. to dredge a tank. পুকুর প্রতিষ্ঠা করা v. to perform solemn rites before putting a newly excavated pond to use. ̃চুরি n. an unbelievably tremendous fraud. 45)

(p. 625) parihāsa a joke, a jest; ridicule; mockery, derision. পরিহাস করা v. to poke fun at, to joke; to ridicule; to mock, to deride, to laugh, to scorn. ̃চ্ছলে, ̃ভরে adv. jokingly. ̃প্রিয় a. given to jesting, jestful; witty; fond of joking. ̃প্রিয়তা n. jestfulness; jocular; jocoseness; jocosity; playfulness. 52)

(p. 633) pāṭala brick-red, pale and pink-coloured. 81)

(p. 647) pāśē on or to the side of; alongside; beside; by the side of; sidewise; in presence or company of. 15)

(p. 642) pāraṇa, pāraṇā (act of taking) the first meal after the completion of a fast, breakfast (in the original sense). পারণ করা, পারণা করা v. to break a fast by taking one's meal. 51)

(p. 606) paḍ়na2 (dial.) reading; perusal; study; recitation; recital. 6)

(p. 671) prakṛtārtha true significance, real meaning; inner significance. 7)