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पयस payas (changeable to पयो payo), s.m. Juice; water; milk:—payo da, adj. (f. -ā), Yielding milk;—s.m. 'Water-giver,' a cloud:—payo dhar, s.m. lit. 'Water-holder'; or 'containing milk'; a cloud; a woman's breast; an udder;—the root of Scirpus kysoor;—a species of sugar-cane;—the cocoa-nut;—the fragrant grass Cyperus rotundus:—payo-dhas, payo-dhi, s.m.=payo-nidhi, q.v.:—payo-dhik, s.m. 'Seafoam'; cuttle-fish bone:—payo-muć, s.m. A cloud:—payo-mukh, adj. Having milk on the surface; milk-faced:—payo-nidhi, s.m. 'Receptacle of water'; the ocean; a cloud; pond, lake:—payo-vrat, s.m. The act of subsisting on mere milk in consequence of a vow (which, with prayer and residence in a cow-house, for the period of one month, is regarded as an expiation for receiving an unsuitable present);—the offering milk to Vishṇu and subsisting upon it for twelve days as an act of merit; also for one day, or for three days.