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- OUGHTEDsimple past of owe
- PADMAlotus blossom
- PAGODAA Hindu temple.
- PAIKA foot soldier or armed attendant, in some cases holding land in exchange for military service.
- PAIKEDA foot soldier or armed attendant, in some cases holding land in exchange for military service.
- PAISAA subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Indian, Nepalese, or Pakistani rupee.
- PALASA tree of eastern India and Burma, Butea monosperma.
- PANDITAn honorary title for a learned man or scholar.
- PARIAHSynonym of outcast: A person despised and excluded by their family, community, or society, especially a member of the untouchable castes in Indian society.
- PILAFA dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added.
- PONZUA sour citrus-based sauce usually made from the juice of the 橙 (daidai), an Asian variety of bitter orange, mixed with soy sauce.
- PONZUSA sour citrus-based sauce usually made from the juice of the 橙 (daidai), an Asian variety of bitter orange, mixed with soy sauce.
- POONACA kind of oil cake prepared from the coconut.
- PRAJNAWisdom; understanding; insight.
- PRAJNASWisdom; understanding; insight.
- PRANARespiration, breathing, seen as a life principle or life force.
- PUJAA religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship.
- PULAOAlternative form of pilaf.
- PUNDITAn expert in a particular field, especially as called upon to provide comment or opinion in the media; a commentator, a critic.
- PUNKAHA fan, particularly a large fan made of leaf or cloth and hung from the ceiling, formerly often operated by a servant.
- PUTTEEA strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc.
- RAGAAny of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form.
- RANGOLIA geometric or stylized design on the floor (or other flat surface) made using small coloured granules, powder or flowers.
- RANIThe wife of a rajah.
- REAVETo plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
- RELINQUISHTo give up, abandon or retire from something; to trade away.
- RICECereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
- RISHIA Vedic poet and seer who composed Rigvedic hymns, who alone or with others invokes the deities with poetry of a sacred character.
- ROTIA kind of unleavened flatbread commonly consumed in South Asia and the Caribbean.
- RUFIYAAThe official currency of the Maldives, equal to 100 laari.
- RUPEEAny of the monetary currencies used in modern India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, the Seychelles, or Sri Lanka.
- RUPIAHThe unit of currency in Indonesia.
- SADHUAn ascetic or practitioner of yoga (yogi) who has given up pursuit of the first three Hindu goals of life: kama (enjoyment), artha (practical objectives) and even dharma (duty).
- SAMADHIA state of transcendent union supposed to be assumed by a holy man or yogi at his death.
- SAMBARA Southeast Asian deer (Rusa unicolor).
- SANDHIAny of a wide variety of phonological processes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries, such as the fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of sounds due to n
- SANGEETA gathering for the purpose of singing songs; a musical ceremony.
- SANGHAThe community of all followers of the Buddha; the ecclesia in which the devout take refuge; those who have "entered the stream" towards nirvana; one of the Three Jewels of Buddhism
- SARIThe traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent; an outer garment consisting of a single length of cotton or silk, most often with one end wrapped around the waist to for
- SATORIA sudden inexpressible feeling of spiritual awakening or enlightenment, the result of meditation and study.
- SHAMANA traditional faith healer.
- SHAVEROne who shaves.
- SHAWLA square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women.
- SINEIn a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse.
- SINEDIn a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse.
- SKYCLADBelonging to the Digambara school of Jainism.
- STUPAA Buddhist monument used to house relics of the Buddha or others, especially dome-shaped monuments in the Indian style.
- SUTRAA rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy.
- SUTTEEThe traditional custom of a Hindu woman giving herself up to be cremated on her husband’s funeral pyre as a sign of her devotion.
- SWAMIA Hindu ascetic or religious teacher.
- TAKAThe official currency of Bangladesh, equal to 100 paisas. Symbol: ৳
- TANTRICRelated to Vajrayana Buddhism.
- TAPERA slender wax candle.
- THANAA military outpost.
- TINCALcrude native borax, formerly imported from Tibet, and once the chief source of boric compounds
- TINCALScrude native borax, formerly imported from Tibet, and once the chief source of boric compounds
- TOLAA unit of mass used in India, equal to the mass of a silver rupee coin, fixed at 180 troy grains (11.663 8038 grams) in 1833, and of a similar but slightly variable value before th
- TORANA gateway consisting of two upright pillars carrying one to three transverse lintels, often minutely carved with symbolic sculpture, and serving as a monumental approach to a Buddh
- TULPAA magical creature that attains corporeal reality, having been originally merely imaginary.
- TUTTYA powdered form of impure zinc oxide used for polishing.
- URIALA bearded reddish sheep, subspecies of Ovis orientalis (including Ovis orientalis vignei), previously classified as Ovis vignei, being endemic to southern Asia and believed to be a
- VARNAany of the four original castes in Hinduism, or the system of such castes
- VEENAA plucked stringed instrument with five or seven steel strings stretched on a long fretted finger-board over two gourds, used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music.
- VIHARAA Buddhist monastery.
- VIMANAA mythological flying palace or chariot described in Hindu texts and Sanskrit epics.
- VINAAlternative form of veena.
- YANTRAA geometrical diagram used as a meditation aid in tantric worship.
- YOGINIA female yogi.
- YONIThe vulva or vagina, or a symbol of them, especially as an object of veneration within certain types of Hinduism, Buddhism, and other cultures.
- YONICIn the shape of a vulva (yoni).
- YUGAIn Hindu theology, a period of a few hundred or thousand years, or an epoch or era within a cycle of four ages, catur-yuga catur-yuga: the Satya Yuga (or Krita Yuga), the Dvapara Y
- ZERONATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 0.