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The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

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Purekkhata<br />

Purekkhata=purakkhata Sn 849, 859, (a˚); Nd1 73, 214.<br />

Purekkharoti<br />

Purekkharoti [for purakkharoti, pure=Sk. pura1] to honour etc. Sn 794=803; ppr. purekkhar!na Sn 844,<br />

910.<br />

Purekkh!ra<br />

Purekkh!ra [for purakkh!ra, pura1+k%, see pure] defer- ence, devotion, honour; usually -- ˚ (adj.) devoted<br />

to, honouring D i.115; Vin iii.130; iv.2, 277; Nd1 73, 214; Dh 73 (=pariv!ra DhA ii.77); Vv 3414 (attha˚=<br />

hitesin VvA 152); VbhA 466 (˚mada); VvA 72.<br />

Purekkh!rat!<br />

Purekkh!rat! (f.) [abstr. fr. purekkh!ra] deference to ( -- ˚) DhA iv.181 (attha˚).<br />

Purohita<br />

Purohita [purah+pp. of dh!, ch. Vedic purohita] 1. placed in front, i. e. foremost or at the top, in phrase<br />

dev! Inda -- purohit! the gods with Inda at their head J vi.127 (=Inda' pure -- c!rika' katv! C.). -- 2. the<br />

king's headpriest (brahmanic), or domestic chaplain, acting at the same time as a sort of Prime Minister D<br />

i.138; J i.210; v.127 (his wife as br!hma*"); Pug 56 (br!hma*a p.); Miln 241, 343 (dhamma -- nagare p.);<br />

PvA 74.<br />

Pulaka<br />

Pulaka [cp. Sk. pul!ka, Hal!yudha 5, 43; not Sk. pulaka, as Kern, Toev. s. v. for which see also Walde, Lat.<br />

Wtb. s. v. pilus] shrivelled grain Miln 232 (sukka -- yava˚ of dried barley); DhA ii.154 (SS; T. reads<br />

m(laka', which is expld by Bdhgh as "nitthusa' katv! ussedetv! gahita -- yava -- ta*.ula vuccanti" ibid).<br />

Here belongs pulasa -- patta of J iii.478. (vv. ll. pul!˚, m(l!˚, mul!˚; expld by C. as "sa*h!*i pulasa --<br />

gaccha -- pa**!ni," thus taking pulasa as a kind of shrub, prob. because the word was not properly<br />

understood).<br />

Pu)ava<br />

Pu)ava [etym.? dial; cp. Class. Sk. pulaka erection of the hairs of the body, also given by lexicographers<br />

(Hemachandra 1202) in meaning "vermin"] a worm, maggot M iii.168; Sn 672; J iii.177; vi.73; Miln 331,<br />

357; Vism 179 (=kimi) DhA iii.106, 411. See next.<br />

Pu)avaka<br />

Pu)avaka (BB pu)uvaka)=pu)ava DhA iv.46; VvA 76; PvA 14. One of the (asubha) kamma&&h!nas is called<br />

p. "the contemplation (˚saññ! idea) of the worminfested corpse" S v.131; Dhs 264; Vism 110, 179 (pu)u˚),<br />

194 (id.; as asubha -- lakkha*a); DhA iv.47. See also asubha.<br />

Pulasa<br />

Pulasa see pulaka.

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