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Words Starting with P

 

pakhavāja – (pakhawāj, pakhāoyāja, pakhāvaja) (pakṣa + vādyam = “side instrument”); the barrel drum with a deep low pitched sound used in old classical, haveli, dhamāra, and dhrupada music

 

pakaḍa – (pakkad) see svarūpa

 

pakoḍā – (pakorā) fried chips made from vegetables dipped in chick-pea flour

 

pańca bhuta – the five material elements; earth, fire, wind, water, ether

 

Pańca-Tattva – Lord Caitanya and His associates

 

Pańcajaṇya – the conchshell of Lord Kṛṣṇa

 

Pāńcāla – the kingdom where Drupada ruled

 

Pāńcālī – Draupadī

 

pańcama – the fifth note in the musical scale

 

Pańcavaṭī – the forest

 

Pāṇḍu – the second oldest son of Vicitravīrya, son of Ambālikā, husband of Kuntī and Mādrī, and father of the five Pāṇḍavas; king of Hastinapura until an accident occurred followed by his untimely death

 

Pāṇḍava – the five sons of Pāṇḍu; Yudhiṣṭhira, Bhīma, and Arjuna through Kuntī, Nakula and Sahadeva (through Mādrī)

 

pańga (pung) – a Manipuri version of the khol with a lower pitched sound

 

pāpa – sin

 

Pāpa-puruṣa – the embodiment of sins created by Lord Viṣṇu who hides in all grain products on Ekādasī days

 

parabrahman – the Supreme Lord, who is superior than His impersonal aspect of Brahman

 

paramātmā – the local aspect of the Supreme Lord as the indwelling witness and guide; the Supersoul in each living entity

 

paramparā – succession of disciples

 

Parāśara Muni – the father of Vyāsadeva and the original narrator of the Viṣṇu Pūrāṇa

 

Paraśurāma – Lord Kṛṣṇa’s form as a brāhmaṇa to destroy the demoniac administrative class of men twenty-one times before retiring

 

pari – fairy

 

parijata – (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis) a tree mentioned in the Vedic scriptures

 

Parīkṣit Mahārāja – the grandson of Arjuna and the ruler of the Kuru nation at the onset of Kaliyuga, who got liberation by listening to the Srīmad Bhāgavatam for seven days before his foreseen death

 

Pārtha – the son of Pṛthā (Kuntī); Arjuna

 

Pārvatī – the eternal consort of Lord Siva

 

pātāla – one of the hellish planets

 

Patańjalī – the author of the original yoga system

 

pati – 1) leader 2) husband

 

patnī – wife

 

prabhu – master, lord

 

Pradyumna – 1) an expansion of the Lord who took form as Bharata during Lord Rāma’s pastimes 2) the son of Rukmiṇī and Kṛṣṇa (NOTE: Pradyumna of Krsna lila and the expansion Pradyumna are not the same)

 

Prahasta – one of Rāvaṇa’s sons

 

Prahlāda Mahārāja – the son of Hiraṇyakaśipu who was a great devotee and was protected by Lord Nṛsiḿha

 

prakāśa – light

 

Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī – an impersonalist sannyasī who, after being defeated by Lord Caitanya, became his disciple along with all of his followers

 

praktṛī – energy or nature

 

prāṇā – life

 

prāṇāma – obeisances; respects

 

prāṇāyama – breath control as a means of advancement of yoga

 

prasāda – (prasādam) 1) lit. “mercy” 2) anything offered to the Lord, and then consumed after His use; commonly remnants of the food offered to the Lord

 

Prativindhya – son of Yudhiṣṭhira and Draupadī

 

pratyāhāra – sensory withdrawal as a means of advancement of yoga

 

prema – love

 

Pṛthā – name of Kuntī

 

Pṛthu – a king who was an ideal devotee and taught the ideals of perfect temple service and honoring devotees

 

Pṛthvī – Mother Earth

 

pūjā – deity worship

 

Purāṇa – lit. “that what is eternally new”; the eighteen historical scriptures supplementing the Vedas

 

Purī – see Jagannātha Puri

 

puri – 1) fried wheat dough 2) (puddi, purri, puḍi) the head of a classical drum

 

Purocana – the architect who conspired with Sakuni and Duryodhana to build a wax-house for the Pāṇḍavas, so they can be killed by burning the wax house while they are asleep

 

puruṣa – “the enjoyer”; the individual soul or Supreme Lord

 

Puruṣa-avatāra – the primary expansions of Viṣṇu in affect the creation, maintenance, and destruction of the material universes

 

Puṣkala – Bharata’s son

 

Puṣpaka – the great swan aerial car that carried Sītā, Rāma, Lakṣmaṇa, the ape generals, Vibhiṣaṇa, and other devotees to Ayodhyā, originally owned by Kubera but seized by Rāvaṇa

 

puṣpa – flowers

 

puṣpāńjalī – offering flowers in reverence and devotion

 

Pūtanā –Kaḿsa’s demonic nurse who was sent to kill Kṛṣṇa during His infant pastimes