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

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