Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s7.t1.25

v2.c27.s7.t1.25

¹ *Pān*, ‘the leaf’; *parna* and *pattra*, the Sanskrit for ‘a leaf’; and hence *panna*, ‘a leaf or sheet of paper’; and *patra*, ‘a plate of metal or sacrificial cup,’ because these vessels were first made of leaves. I was amused with the coincidence between the Sanskrit and Tuscan *panna*. That lovely subject by Raphael, the “Madonna impannata,” in the Pitti Palace at Florence, is so called from the subdued light admitted through the window, the panes of which are of paper. [The words have no connexion.]