(p. 633) pāka4 act of going round or winding, circumambulation, revolution, convolution, circular movement, rotation; a coil or ring (জিলিপির পাক); a twirl or spin; a providential or chance occurrence (পাকেচক্রে); an intrigue, a conspiracy, a plot, a tangle. পাক খাওয়া v. to go round; to have a walk; to wind; to circumambulate; to revolve, to convolve, to rotate; to twirl, to spin, to twine; to ravel. পাক খোলা v. to untwist; to unravel, to puzzle out. ̃দন্ডী n. a circuitous or spiral route that leads to the top of a mountain. পাক দেওয়া v. to go round; to have a walk; to twist, to spin, to ravel. পাক পড়া. পাক লাগা v. to become twisted; to become twisted confusedly, to ravel. পাক লাগানো same as পাক দেওয়া । পাকে পড়া v. to be entagled, to be caught in an intrigue; to get into difficulty or trouble. পাকে ফেলা v. to catch in an intrigue; to drive into difficulty. 24)

(p. 615) paraganā a former administrative division in India, a pargana. 2)

(p. 645) pālaki a palanquin, a palki, palkee. পালকি-বেহারা n. a palanquin-bearer. 16)

(p. 665) pēṣaṇa pressing; grinding; crushing; kneading, squeezing; pulverization; oppression. 38)

(p. 647) pica4 a black residue of distillation of tar, pitch. ̃-ঢালা a. pitched, tarred (পিচ ঢালা রাস্তা). পিচ দেওয়া, পিচ ঢালা v. to pitch, to tar. 39)

(p. 601) pakṣānta the end or termination of a lunar fortnight; the full moon or the new moon; (loos.) termination of a fortnight or a period of fifteen days. 19)

(p. 696) prēta an evil spirit, a goblin, a ghoul; a ghost; the spirit or ghost of a dead person. ̃কর্ম, ̃কার্য, ̃কৃত্য, ̃ক্রিয়া n. funeral rites; obsequial rites. ̃তত্ত্ব n. spiritism, spiritualism. ̃তত্ত্ববিদ n. a spiritist, a spiritualist. ̃তর্পণ n. offering of water to the spirit of a deceased person. ̃দেহ n. a ghost (of a dead person), an apparition. ̃নদী n. (myth.) the river Baitarini (বৈতরণী) which the soul of the dead has to cross, (cp.) the Styx. ̃পক্ষ n. the dark lunar fortnight ending with the Mahalaya (মহালয়া). ̃পিন্ড n. lump of food offered to the spirit of a deceased person. ̃ভূমি n. a burial ground, a cremation ground. ̃পুরী n. the abode of the dead, the spirit-world, (cp.) Hades. ̃মূর্তি n. a ghost, an apparition. ̃যোনি n. an evil spirit, a goblin, a ghoul. ̃লোক same as েতপুরী । প্রতাত্মা n. the soul or spirit of a dead person, a ghost, a spirit. েতাশৌচ n. impurity of one's body caused by carrying a dead person. েতিনী n. fem. a female evil spirit, a female goblin or ghoul. 34)

(p. 625) pariśrānta fatigued, exhausted; tired; wearied. পরিশ্রান্তি n. fatigue, exhaustion; tiredness, weariness. 31)

(p. 667) paurbāparya due order or succession; sequence. 48)

(p. 618) paraśu2 a battle-axe; a scimitar. ̃রাম n. the sixth incarnation of Vishnu (বিষ্ণু) who carried a battle-axe with which he exterminated kshatriyas (ক্ষত্রিয়) from the face of the earth for twenty-one times. 5)

(p. 654) purā1 before, formerly, in the past, in ancient times. 37)

(p. 667) paurōhitya the office or profession of a priest, priesthood; presidentship, presidency (সভার পৌরোহিত্য). পৌরোহিত্য করা v. to act as a priest; to preside over (a meeting); to lead (as a movement). 45)

(p. 696) prārabdha commenced, started; taken on hand, undertaken (প্রারব্ধ কর্ম). n. destiny, fate; the consequences of activities of a previous birth, which have begun to take effect ('ভোগদ্বারা প্রারব্ধের ক্ষয়') । 6)

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

(p. 675) pratikūla opposed; contrary; hostile, malignant; adverse; unfavourable. ̃তা n. opposition; contrariety; antagonism, hostility, malignancy; adverseness, disfavour. প্রতিকূলতা করা v. to oppose; to be hostile to; to antagonize. প্রতিকূলাচরণ n. opposition; antagonism, hostility. প্রতিকূলে prep. against. 9)