پرایہ

ूाय prāya, s.m. Going away, departure; departure from life; seeking death by fasting, sitting down and fasting to death (as a religious or penitentiary act, or, like the practice of sitting in dharnā, to enforce compliance with a demand); principal part, largest portion; plurality, majority, majority of cases, general rule; quantity, abundance, plenty, excess; banquet, feast;—a stage or condition of life, age; (as a suffix, or a prefix), almost, like, resembling (e.g. amr̤it-prāya, 'like nectar'):—prāya-dvīp, prāya-dīp, s.m. 'Almost an island,' a peninsula (=upa-dvīp):—prāyaśćitt (for prāya-ćitta, the śbeing euphonic), s.m. Expiation, expiatory act, atonement, penance, satisfaction, compensation, indemnification, amends (=vulg. parāćit; parāśćit):—prāyaśćitt-kartā, s.m. One who effects expiation, or makes atonement:—prāyaśćitt-muktāvalī, s.f. Any work prescribing the rules of expiation:—prāyaśćitt-wālā, s.m.=prāyaśćitt-kartā, q.v.: prāyaśćitt-vidhi, s.f. A prescribed rule of penance or expiation.