(p. 654) puriẏā a tiny packet; a dose of medicine or other articles in a tiny packet; an Indian musical mode. 50)

(p. 675) pratikārya redressible; remediable; that which can be or is to be avenged or counteracted; preventible. 8)

(p. 606) paḍ়ā2 to read, to go through, to peruse; to study; to recite (মন্ত্র পড়া, হলফ পড়া). n. reading, perusal; study; recital, recitation; an instalment of lesson, lesson, exercise. a. that which has been read, perused; studied; recited. পড়া করা v. to learn or prepare one's lessons. প়ড়া ধরা, পড়া নেওয়া v. to test whether one can say one's lessons. পড়া দেওয়া, পড়া বলা v. to say one's lessons. (কারও) কাছে পড়া v. to read, to take lessons from. পড়ে শোনানো v. to read to. বিদ্যালয়ে পড়তে যাওয়া to go to school. ̃নো v. to teach; to cause to read or study or recite; to instruct, prepare by (repeated) instruction, to tutor, to rehearse, to prime (সাক্ষি পড়ান). পড়ার ঘর n. a study; a reading room. পড়ার নেশা n. a great liking for or attachment to reading; love of reading. ̃শোনা n. study; academic education, schooling. পড়াশোনা করা v. to study; to have one's schooling; to learn one's lessons. পড়াশোনায় মন থাকা to take care of one's lessons or studies, to be mindful of one's lessons or studies. 12)

(p. 681) pratyarthī (in law) a contestant, a defendant, an opponent, an opposite party; an accused. 7)

(p. 678) pratisaṃhāra withholding (of weapons etc.); warding off. প্রতিসংহার করা v. to hold back, to withhold; to ward off, to stave off. 31)

(p. 647) pin̐jā to open out the fibres of (cotton, wool etc.), to comb or card (wool, cotton, hemp etc.), to tease; (of cloth) to open out into fibres (চাদরখানা পিঁজে গেছে). 28)

(p. 688) prasāda grace, favour, propitiousness (ঈশ্বরপ্রসাদ); food-offering to a deity (this is taken by devotees after the sacrifice); remains of food taken by a superior or venerable person (গুরুর প্রসাদ); complacency; (of lit. composition) lucidity, clarity, perspicuity (also প্রসাদগুণ). প্রসাদ পাওয়া v. to enjoy the grace of; to partake of the food offered to a deity or of the remains of food taken by a superior person. প্রসাদ নেওয়া v. to partake of the food offered to a deity or of the remains of food taken by a superior person. প্রসাদন n. act of pleasing, propitiation. ̃প্রার্থী a. & n. one who asks for or seeks a favour; one desirous of partaking of the food offered to a deity or of the remains of food taken by a superior person. fem. ̃প্রার্থিনী । প্রসাদাত্ adv. through the grace or favour of. প্রসাদিত propitiated. প্রসাদী a. (of a food etc.) offered to a deity or partaken of by a superior person. 37)

(p. 684) prabhāta morning; daybreak. প্রভাত হওয়া v. to dawn. এখন প্রভাত it is morning. ̃কাল n. the morning-time, morning. ̃ফেরি n. singing awakening songs in procession through the streets of a town or village. ̃রাগ n. the morning glow. প্রভাত হয়েছে it is dawn. প্রভাতী, প্রভাতি a. of the morning. n. a morning song or glorification, a matin. প্রভাতে মেঘডম্বরঃ (fig.) great cry but little wool. 35)

(p. 681) pratyaẏa trust; belief; confidence; conviction; firm impression or notion; (gr.) an inflection. প্রত্যয় করা v. to believe, to trust, to have confidence (in). ̃জনক, ̃যোগ্য a. trustworthy, believable, worthy of belief, credible; convincing. প্রত্যয়িত a. trusty. প্রত্যয়ী a. believing; trusting; confident. 6)

(p. 644) pārā1 mercury, quicksilver. ̃ঘটিত a. containing mercury, mercurial (পারাঘটিত মলম = mercurial ointment). 18)

(p. 644) pāramāṇaba, pāramāṇabika atomic. 9)

(p. 633) pākānō to twist; to twirl; to ravel; to wring, to writhe (শরীর পাকানো); to wizen; to complicate (সে ব্যাপারটাকে পাকিয়েছে); to organize, to form (দল পাকানো); to cook, to ripen; to mature; to cause to turn grey; to cause to suppurate; to season; to make experienced or skilled; to harden; to deprave, to spoil, to make precocious. a. twisted; twirled; ravelled; wizened. 31)

(p. 629) palaka wink or blink (of eyes); a very short time, an instant, a moment; an eyelid. পলক পড়া v. (of eyes) to close, to wink, to blink. পলক ফেলা v. to wink, to blink. ̃পাত n. closing of eyelids. ̃শূন্য, ̃হীন a. (of eyes) unwinking unblinking; (of sight or look) steadfast, fixed, winkless. পলকে পলকে every moment; in very quick succession. পলকে প্রলয় instant disaster (with little or no warning). পলকের মধ্যে, পলকে adv. in an instant, instantly; in the twinkling of an eye. 9)

(p. 654) punnāga the white lotus, the white lily; a kind of flower-plant, the nagakeshara (নাগকেশর). 24)

(p. 669) pra- denoting excellence, celebrity, abundance, excess, intensity, extensiveness, inception etc. 24)