Archives Glossary of special terms

pudumandapa

lit. new mandapa

puja

ritual act to invoke and honour a deity, performed by presiding Brahman priests at temples, by village priests at local shrines, or by householders at household shrines

pumunai

part of the bodigai or bodhika

punya

religious merit

puram

war genre in Tamil poetics

pushpa-patta

decoration of coiffure

pustaka

The pustaka (पुस्तक) is a book of palm-leaves cut long and narrow or a manuscript which looks like one. In Buddhist tradition, it represents the Prajñāpāramitā scripture of Transcendental Wisdom. This book is supposed to have been given by the… Continue Reading →

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