(p. 615) paracā a settlement record. 7)

(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. 654) purīṣa faeces, excrement, stool; ordure, dung, droppings. পুরীষোত্সর্গ n. evacuation of ordure on something or somebody. 52)

(p. 687) pramukhāt from the mouth of; by word of one's mouth; verbally from. 5)

(p. 681) pratyabhijñā, pratyabhijñāna recognition. 3)

(p. 667) pautra a son's or nephew's son, a grandson. fem. পৌত্রী a son's or nephew's daughter, a grand-daughter. 38)

(p. 675) pratinamaskāra salutation in reply to a salutation. 35)

(p. 638) pātatāḍ়i a bundle of palm-leaves used (instead of paper) in writing by a tyro. পাততাড়ি গোটানো v. (lit.) to put away the bundle of palm-leaves when the lesson is over; (fig.) to depart or decamp, to quit; to depart lock, stock and barrel; (fig.) to close down or wind up (a business etc.). 32)

(p. 673) prajbalitā strongly burning, flaming; enkindled, lighted; (fig.) excited or roused. প্রজ্বলিত হওয়া v. to burn strongly; to be aflame or ablaze; to be enkindled or lighted; (fig.) to be excited or roused. 13)

(p. 638) pātābāhāra a tropical hedge-plant of the Croton genus, the Codiaeum variegatum. 42)

(p. 601) paṅkha (dial.—archi.) finial. 39)

(p. 601) pakṣāghāta paralysis, palsy. ̃গ্রস্হ a. paralysed, palsied. 18)

(p. 671) prakṛti nature (শান্তপ্রকৃতি); behaviour, habit, instinct (অসত্প্রকৃতি); natural qualities, nature (বস্তুপ্রকৃতি); the external world, nature; the power that creates and regulates the world, Nature; the primordial female energy; (phil.) illusion, maya; people or subjects; (gr.) a root word. ̃গত a. pertaining to one's nature; instinctive, habitual; pertaining to physical nature, natural. ̃জ, ̃জাত a. natural; inborn, innate, inherent, native; instinctive. ̃দত্ত a. given by nature, natural; innate. ̃পুঞ্জ n. pl. people or subjects. ̃পূজা n. nature-worship, animism. ̃বাদ n. naturalism, materialism; (gr.) consideration of the rootmeaning of words, use of words in the root-meaning only, purism. ̃বাদী a. naturalistic, materialistic; (gr.) puristic. n. a naturalist, a materialist; (gr.) a purist. ̃বিজ্ঞান n. physics; natural science; natural philosophy. ̃বিজ্ঞানী n. a naturalist; a physicist. ̃বিরুদ্ধ a. contrary to nature. ̃স্হ a. in one's natural or normal state; come to one's senses; recovered. প্রকৃতিস্হ হওয়া v. to come to one's senses; to regain one's mental balance; to recover. 8)

(p. 682) prapitāmaha a great-grandfather (on one's father's side). fem. প্রপিতামহী a greatgrandmother (on one's father's side). 41)

(p. 692) prādurbhūta manifested; seriously or terribly broken out; extensively and terribly prevalent, existing in a large number. প্রাদুর্ভূত হওয়া v. to appear; to become manifest; to break out seriously or terribly and usu. extensively (রোগ প্রাদুর্ভূত হওয়া). 46)