palas

• “Jahanara and Najabat used a plain wood puck, fashioned out of palas or kinshuk wood, a dense and thick hardwood that burned slowly.”

  Simon & Schuster: Shadow Princess

• “Qualquer dia somos como os burros que caminham com palas (sem ofender o animal).”

  Simon Brewster

• “(M.H.G. “palas”, Lat. “palatium”) is a large building standing alone and largely used as a reception hall.”

  The Nibelungenlied

• “If the powder of the seed of the shvadaushtra plant and the flower of barley are mixed together in equal parts, and a portion of it, i.e. two palas in weight, is eaten every morning on getting up, it has the same effect as the preceding recipe.”

  The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

• “To control helminths in livestock farmers use palas”

  3. India

• “Using as thread the roots of the ubiquitous _palas_”

  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II

• “Next day he went out to look at his traps, but found that he had caught, not a wild chicken, but a big lizard (palas [107]) with pretty figured patterns on its back.”

  Philippine Folk-Tales

• “When he [who suffers the ordeal] has thus spoken, let a smooth red hot iron ball, of fifty _palas_ weight, be placed upon both his hands.”

  Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya

• “By the action of fire, gold is not lessened in quantity: one hundred _palas_ [273] of silver thereby lose two _palas_; of tin, one hundred _palas_ lose eight; lead and copper, out of one hundred”

  Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya

• “One hundred _palas_ of wool or cotton when worked [275] are increased by ten _palas_; if the thread be of middling fineness, the increase is five _palas_; if very fine, three _palas.”

  Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya

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