Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c35.110

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c35.110

P. *Pacca*, green: *-heṭṭaya*, brocade jacket, 164, 237: *-kusalāna*, ‘emerald’ cup, 206: *-pāṭa*, green colour, 164. Pacisi (H.), *chaupai*, a kind of race game played on a chequered four-armed cloth, or similarly marked board (*da-poruva*, Clough), 186, 268. The word *pacisi* is not in use amongst the Sinhalese, and I have been unable to learn the correct term,—perhaps *chaupai*. *Paḍaya*, foot measure, 153: quarter, airt, 159: a cloth eight cubits long, 233. *Paḍakkama*, a pendant, 211; Pls. XLVIII., 5, 6, XLIX., 11. Paddy, *pādi* (Malay), rice in the husk, 72, Pādeṇiya, a village in the C.P., 75. *Paḍi-kaṇḍa*, threshold, 133. *Paḍikkama*, spittoon, 222. *Paḍimākaḍa poṭa* (prob. corruption of *paṭimā-kaḍa poṭa*), craftsman’s copy- or sketch book, 65, 86, 107; Fig. 20; Pl. XIV., 1. *Paḍmāsanaya*, lotus throne, 96, 138. *Paḍu kule*, forked stick used in laying warp, 236. *Paḍuvā*, caste, inferior cultivators, palanquin bearers, 22.