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  • noun Plural form of pala.

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  • noun East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye

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Examples

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

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

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

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

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

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

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

    Simon Brewster Red 2007

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

    The Nibelungenlied 2007

  • 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 2006

  • To control helminths in livestock farmers use palas

    3. India 1997

  • Using as thread the roots of the ubiquitous _palas_

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

  • 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 Fletcher Gardner

  • 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 W.A [Translator] Montriou

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