The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

P!reti [Denom. fr. p!ra; cp. Lat. portare] to make go through, to bore through, pierce, break (?) J iii.185
(reading uncertain).
P!revata
P!revata [the Prk. form (cp. M!gadhi p!revaya) of the Sk. p!r!pata, which appears also as such in P.] 1. a
dove, pigeon A i.162 (dove -- coloured); Vv 363 (˚akkhi= p!r!pat' akkhi VvA 167); J vi.456. -- 2. a species
of tree, Diospyros embryopteris J vi.529, 539.
P!roha
P!roha [fr. pra+ruh, cp. Sk. *pr!roha] 1. a small (side) branch, new twig (of a Nigrodha tree) J v.8, 38, 472;
vi.199; SnA 304; PvA 113. -- 2. a shoot, sprout (from the root of a tree, tillering) S i.69 (see C. expln at
K.S. 320); J vi.15; DhA ii.70; VbhA 475; 476.
P!la
P!la ( -- ˚) [fr. p!, see p!leti] a guard, keeper, guardian, protector S i.185 (vih!ra˚); J v.222 (dhamma˚);
VvA 288 (!r!ma˚); Sdhp 285. See also go˚, loka˚.
P!laka
P!laka ( -- ˚) [fr. p!] a guardian, herdsman M i.79; S iii.154; A iv.127; J iii.444.
P!lana
P!lana (nt.) (& p!lan!?) [fr. p!leti 2, to all likelihood for pal!yana through *p!l!na, with false analogy]
moving, running, keeping going, living, in phrase vutti p!lana yapana etc. at Vism 145; DhsA 149 167; also
in defn of bhuñjati1 as "p!lan' ajjhoh!resu" by eating & drinking for purposes of living, at Dhtp 379. As
p!lan! at the Dhs passages of same context as above (see under yapana).
P!lan!
P!lan! (f.) [fr. p!leti cp. Ep. Sk. p!lana nt.] guarding, keeping J i.158; Dhs 19, 82,295.
P!li (P!)i)
P!li (P!)i) (f.) [cp. Sk. p!l" a causeway, bridge Hal!yudha iii.54] 1. a line, row D!vs iii.61; iv.3; Vism 242
(dvatti's' !k!ra˚), 251 (danta˚); SnA 87. -- 2. a line, norm, thus the canon of Buddhist writings; the text of
the P!li Canon, i. e. the original text (opp. to the Commentary; thus "p!liya'" is opposed to "a&&hakath!ya'"
at Vism 107, 450, etc). It is the literary language of the early Buddhists, closely related to M!gadh". See
Grierson, The Home of Lit. P!li (Bhandarkar Commemoration vol. p. 117 sq.), and literature given by
Winternitz, Gesch. d. Ind. Litt., ii.10; iii.606, 635. The word is only found in Commentaries, not in the
Pi&aka. See also Hardy, Introd. to Nett, p. xi. -- J iv.447 (˚nayena accord. to the P!li Text); Vism 376 (˚nay'
anus!rena id.), 394, 401, 565 (˚anus!rato accord. to the text of the Canon); 607, 630, 660 sq., 693, 712;
KhA 41; SnA 333, 424, 519, 604; DhsA 157, 168; DhA iv.93; VvA 117, 203 (p!lito+a&&huppattito); PvA
83, 87, 92, 287; and freq. elsewhere. -- va**an! is explanation of the text (as regards meaning of words),
purely textual criticism, as opposed to vinicchaya -- kath! analysis, exegesis, interpretation of sense Vbh
291; Vism 240 (contrasted to bh!van!niddesa).
P!ligu*&hima