The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c49.14

The Chālukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c49.14

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c49.14

PACHĀNANA. A form of Śiva with ‘five faces.’ PALIDHVAJA. A banner. PĀN. A leaf. PAÑCHĀYATANA. An arrangement of five temples in a group. PĀṆḌAVAS. The five mythical brothers of the Mahābhārata. PAPANĀTHA. An epithet of Śiva. PARAŚURĀMA. One of the *avatāras* of Viṣṇu. PĀRŚVANĀTHA. One of the present twenty-four *tīrthankaras*. PĀRVATĪ. The ‘mountain-born,’ the wife of Śiva. PĀŚA. A noose. PINḌI. The *liṅga*. PRADAKṢIṆA. A circumambulatory passage around a shrine. PŪJĀRI. An officiating priest in a temple. PURĀṆA. A legend, a history.

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Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit