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Pancamrta Lauha
Pañcāmṛta Lauha Guggulu (पञ्चामृत लौह गुग्गुलु) is an official Ayurvedic herbo-mineral pill (AFI Part II, 5:1) of mercury, sulphur, silver, mica, makshika, and iron bhasmas with guggulu, used for brain disease, ligament pain, and vata disorders.
Pancamrta Lauha Guggulu
Pancamrta Lauha Guggulu (Pañcāmṛta Lauha Guggulu, पञ्चामृत लौह गुग्गुलु) is a herbo-mineral Ayurvedic pill of guggulu resin and Lauha Bhasma from Bhaishajyaratnavali, official in API Part II Vol. II, used for cervical spondylitis and Vata disorders.
Pancamrta Parpati
Panchamrita Parpati (Panchamrut Parpati), an official Ayurvedic Formulary of India herbo-mineral flake medicine of mercury, sulfur, and iron, mica, and copper bhasmas, used mainly for Grahani at 125–250 mg doses.
Pancanamrta kvatha curna
Pacanamrta kvatha curna (Pācanāmṛta kvātha cūrṇa), AFI 4:20 from Sahasrayoga, is a ten-herb Ayurvedic decoction powder, dose 48 g, used for indigestion and early-stage fever (āmajvara).
Pancanana Rasa
Pancanana Rasa (Pañcānana rasa) is a herbo-mineral preparation of Ayurvedic Rasashastra; several distinct classical formulas share the name, and the Ayurvedic Formulary of India records one at 250 mg.
Pancanimba Curna
Pancanimba Curna (Panchanimba Churna) is a classical Ayurvedic polyherbal powder from Bhaishajya Ratnavali and AFI Part II, built on five parts of neem, 32 ingredients total, dosed 1-5 g with honey for skin diseases such as eczema and facial melanosis.
Pancasila (politics)
Pancasila ("five principles") is Indonesia's official state ideology, first presented by Sukarno on 1 June 1945 and adopted in the 1945 Constitution's preamble. Its five principles, belief in one God, humanity, unity, deliberative democracy, and social justice, bridge Islamic and secular visions of the state.
Pancatikta ghrta
Pancatikta ghrta (Pañcatikta Ghṛta), a classical Ayurvedic medicated ghee of five bitter herbs (neem, guduchi, vasa, kantakari, patola) plus Triphala cooked in cow ghee; used for skin disorders such as psoriasis and studied in osteopenia and joint disease.
Pancatikta guggulu ghrta vaisvanara curna
Pancatikta guggulu ghrita (Guggulutiktaka ghritam, Nimbadi ghrita) and Vaisvanara curna are official Ayurvedic Formulary of India formulations: a five-bitter-herb medicated ghee with guggulu for Vata and inflammatory disorders, and a standardized churna.
Pancatiktaguggulu ghrta
Pancatiktaguggulu ghrta (Guggulutiktaka ghritam, nimbadi ghrita) is an Ayurvedic medicated ghee of five bitter herbs plus guggul, used for osteoarthritis, gout, osteoporosis, and skin disease; lab studies show 12-lipoxygenase and TNF-α/IL-1β inhibition.
Panče Naumov
Panče Naumov (Панче Наумов) is a Macedonian-born chemist, professor at New York University Abu Dhabi, known for establishing crystal adaptronics, the study of molecular crystals that bend, jump, and heal.
Pancer Door
Pancer Door (Pantai Pancer Door) is a beach and surfing spot in Ploso, Pacitan Regency, East Java, on Pacitan Bay. Designated a tourist resort in 1997, it has a mile-long sandy cove, left-hand surf waves, a sea pine jogging track, and about 55,000 annual visitors.
Pancetta
Pancetta is an Italian salumi made from pork belly cured with salt and spices, sold rolled (arrotolata) for thin slices or flat (tesa) for cubes and rendering.
Pančevo
Pančevo (Панчево) is a city in the South Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia, standing on the Tamiš river just above its confluence with the Danube, about 18 km from Belgrade.
Panch Kedar
Panch Kedar is a circuit of five Shiva temples in the Garhwal Himalaya of Uttarakhand, India, where tradition says the Pandavas found Shiva after the Mahabharata war.
Panch Prayag
Panch Prayag, the five sacred confluences of the Alaknanda River in Garhwal, Uttarakhand: Vishnuprayag, Nandaprayag, Karnaprayag, Rudraprayag, and Devprayag, where the Ganga is formed.
Pancha Keliya
Pancha Keliya (පංච කෙළිය), the game of five, is a Sri Lankan cowrie-shell race board game played at Sinhala and Tamil New Year, linked to goddess Pattini and documented by Parker in 1909.
Pancha Rathas
Pancha Rathas, or the Five Rathas, is a group of five monolithic granite temples carved in the 7th century under the Pallava dynasty at Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Panchagarh District
Panchagarh District (পঞ্চগড়), Bangladesh's northernmost district in Rangpur division, formed 1 February 1984 from five upazilas; area 1,404.62 km², India on three sides over 286.87 km, smallholder tea economy, named for five historic forts.
Panchagram
Panchagram (পঞ্চগ্রাম, "Five Villages") is a 1944 Bengali novel by Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, generally treated as the second part of Ganadevata, the combined work that won the 1966 Jnanpith Award.
Panchaia Rupēs
Panchaia Rupēs (Panchaia Rupes) is an IAU-approved 2003 rupes, or scarp system, on Mars, centered at 63.73°N, 130°E, about 1,500 km across, named for a classical albedo feature and the mythical island Panchaia.
Panchajanya
Panchajanya, in Hindu tradition the conch shell of the god Krishna, is also the name of literary works including Kuvempu's Kannada poems and a Bengali novel by Gajendrakumar Mitra.
Panchakanya (पञ्चकन्या)
Panchakanya (पञ्चकन्या), the 'five kanyas' of Hindu epic memory: Ahalya, Draupadi, Sita or Kunti, Tara, and Mandodari, invoked in a dawn Sanskrit shloka held to destroy great sin; also called Panchasati.
Panchakarma
Panchakarma is an Ayurvedic bio-purificatory therapy using preparatory oleation and sweating followed by five cleansing procedures, including emesis, purgation, enemas, and nasal administration, to restore dosha balance.
Panchakoladi ghrita
Panchakoladi ghrita (Pañcakolādighṛta), officially Shatpala ghrita in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India, is a medicated ghee of five pungent Panchakola drugs plus yavakshara and milk, dosed at 12 g, prescribed for Grahani, Rajyakshama, Gulma, Jwara, Kasa, and Pandu.
Panchala
Panchala (पञ्चाल) was a later Vedic kingdom in the upper Ganga–Yamuna Doab, one of the sixteen mahajanapadas, later divided into northern and southern parts along the Ganga.
Panchali
Panchali (পাঁচালি) is a Bengali folk genre of metrical narrative verse sung at gatherings, vows, and pujas; Dasharathi Ray was its leading nineteenth-century poet, and it inspired the novel Pather Panchali.
Panchali gayan
Panchali gayan (পাঁচালি গায়ন, panchali singing) is a Bengali performance genre in which a narrative poem, the panchali, is sung, recited, and danced before an audience.
Panchali Sabatham
Panchali Sabatham (பாஞ்சாலி சபதம், "Panchali's Vow") is a 1912 Tamil epic poem by Subramania Bharati that retells the Mahabharata dice game and disrobing as an allegory of India under British rule.
Pancharatnam–Berry phase
The Pancharatnam–Berry phase is a geometric phase acquired by light whose polarization evolves, equal to half the enclosed solid angle on the Poincaré sphere; Pancharatnam found it in 1956 and Berry generalized it in 1984.