Postīn, a sheepskin coat, 617 and n 4,
618 n 1.
Prayāg, the ancient name of Allah-
abad, 415 and n 5.
Prayer, five stated times of, 147
n 2.
Prinsep's Indian Antiquities, 18 n 1.
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of
Bengal, 559 n 5.
Prœneste, oracle of, 412 n 1.
Prolégomènes d'Ibn Khāldūn, de
Slane's, 151 n 4, 157 n 1, 181 n 2,
191 n 2, 217 n 5, 244 n 6.
Prolégomènes des Tables Astronomiques
d'Oloug Beg, 198 n 2.
Prosody, Ranking's Elements of Arabic
and Persian, 607 n.
Proverbia Arabum, Freytag's, 157 n 1,
458 n 3, 507 n 3, 580 n 1.
Proverbs, Roebuck's, 57 n 2, 58 n 1,
218 n 2, 244 n 5, 301 n 3.
Psalms, Book of, 486 n 4.
Ptolemy, 364 n 4, 382 n 4.
Pufak or Tufak, a long tube for
throwing balls, 159 n 2.
Pūhī, a ford on the Rāvī, 383 and
n 10, 384 n 1, 392.
Pūjā of the Hindūs, 484 n 1.
Punjāb. See under the Panjāb.
Pulāq-Sūrīq, name of a place, 569
and n 8.
Purānas, the, 293 n 5.
Pūranmal, son of Silhadī, one of the
Chiefs of Rāi Sen, contemporary
of Sher Shāh, 475, 476 and n 3.
Purifications enjoined by Muḥam-
madan law, 603 n 2.
Pushakāl,—or
Pushkāl, the rainy season in Turkī,
325 n 2.
Puttyaly, for the township of Baitālī
on the banks of the Ganges, 360
n 3.