(p. 625) parjanya thunder-cloud, nimbus; Indra (ইন্দ্র) the thunder-god. 69)

(p. 615) paracchidra another's fault or weak point. পরচ্ছিদ্রান্বেষণ n. fault-finding; captiousness. পরচ্ছিদ্রান্বেষণ করা v. to find fault with others, to seek a hole in another's coat. পরচ্ছিদ্রান্বেষী a. fault-finding; captious. fem. পরচ্ছিদ্রান্বেষিণী । 9)

(p. 692) prāñjala easily understood, lucid, perspicuous; precise; clear, transparent. ̃তা n. lucidity, perspicuity, precision, preciseness; clarity, clearness, transparence. 29)

(p. 606) pati a husband; a master, an employer, a boss; an owner; an overlord, a ruler, a king; a chief; a leader. ̃গৃহ n. the husband's house, a woman's husband's house. পতিংবরা a. & n. fem. one who selects or chooses one's husband. ˜ঘাতিনী a. & n. fem. one who murders or kills one's husband; one who is the cause of one's husband's death. ̃ত্ব n. the state of being a husband; state of being a master or employer or boss; ownership; overlordship; rulership; kingship; office or post of a chief; leadership. পতিত্বে বরণ করা v. to accept or take as one's husband. ̃ত্যাগ n. act of deserting or divorcing one's husband. ̃দেবতা n. one's husband regarded as one's deity. ̃পরায়ণা a. fem. extremely devoted (and faithful) to one's husband. ̃-পত্নী n. husband and wife. ̃-পুত্র n. a husband and a son or sons. ̃পুত্রহীনা a. deprived of both husband and son. ̃প্রাণা a. fem. one who looks upon one's husband as one's life; one who can hardly live without one's husband, extremely devoted to one's husband. ̃বত্নী a. fem. having one's husband living. ̃বিয়োগ n. death of one's husband. ̃বিরহ n. separation (temporary or permanent) from one's husband. ̃বিরহিণী a. fem. separated (temporarily or permanently) from one's husband. ̃ব্রতা a. fem. one who has taken the vow of serving one's husband; extremely devoted to one's husband. ̃মতী a. fem. having a master or ruler. (পতিমতী পৃথ্বী). ̃সেবা n. serving one's husband. ̃হীনা a. widowed. পতিহীনা নারী a widow. 29)

(p. 692) prācurya plenty, abundance; affluence, milk and honey; profusion; amplitude; numerousness; sufficiency. 24)

(p. 675) pratigamana return. প্রতিগমন করা v. to go back, to return, to recede. 17)

(p. 675) pratikriẏā a reaction; a response; an anti-progressive act or conduct; a swingback; counteraction. ̃শীল a. (pol.) anti-progressive, reactionary; (rare) responsive, reactive. ̃শীলতা n. the quality or state of being reactionary; obscurantism; opposition to progressiveness. প্রতিক্রিয়াশীল হওয়া v. to react; to be reactionary. প্রতিক্রিয়াশীল ব্যক্তি a reactionary. 13)

(p. 619) parikarma act of making one's toilet; dressing. পরিকর্মা n. a servant esp. one attending to toilet and clothes, a valet. 35)

(p. 667) pōtāśraẏa a harbour, a haven. 5)

(p. 633) pāchaduẏāra a back-door, a postern gate. 61)

(p. 619) paripōṣaka nourishing; cherishing; supporting (পরিপোষক মূল্য); protecting, protective. 119)

(p. 619) paribalana (bot.) circumnutation. 132)

(p. 649) piṇḍa a lump; a conglomerated mass; (loos.) anything ball-shaped, a ball; food offering to the manes of forefathers; a lump of food; the body (as a conglomerated mass of পঞ্চভূত or the five elements). ̃খর্জুর, (coll.) পিণ্ডে খেজুর n. dates preserved in lumps, lump-dates. ̃দ, ̃দাতা a. scripturally authorized to give food-offering to the manes; giving food-offering to the manes; providing with food. n. such a man. fem. পিণ্ডদা, পিণ্ডদাত্রী । ̃দান n. the sacrament of food-offering to the manes. পিণ্ডদান করা v. to offer food to the manes. ̃লোপ n. extinction or absence of persons or descendants authorized to offer food to one's manes; extinction of one's line of descent. ̃শরীর n. the body (as a conglomerated mass of পঞ্চভূত or five elements). 15)

(p. 681) pratyāśā hope; longing; prospect; expectation; awaiting. প্রত্যাশা করা v. to hope or long (for); to expect; to await. প্রত্যাশিত a. hoped; longed for; prospective; expected; awaited. প্রত্যাশী a. hoping or longing for; expectant; awaiting. 25)

(p. 682) pradara leucorrhoea. 15)