ORIENTAL SERIES.

OMKARAPAHLA VA. 225
OMKARA. The sacred monosyllable Om, Name of one of
the twelve great lingas. See Linga.
OSHADHI-PKASTEA. 'The place of medicinal herbs.'
A city in the Himalaya mentioned in the Kumara-sambhava.
OSHrHA-KAKTVAKAS. A people whose lips extended to
their ears, mentioned in the Maha-bharata.
PADA- The Pada text of the Yedas, or of any other work,
is one in which each word (pada) stands separate and distinct,
not joined with the next according to the rules of sandhi (coali-
tion). See Paftia,
PADMA, PADMAYATI. A name of Lakshmi.
PADMAYATI. Name of a city. It would seem, from the
mention made of it in the drama Malaii Madhava, to lie in the
Vindhya mountains.
PADMA-KALPA. The last expired kalpa or year of Brahma.
PADMA-PTJKAJVA, PADMA- PURAJV~A. This Purana
generally stands second in the list of Pura^as, and is thus descrihed
:
" That which contains an account of the period when
the world was a golden lotos (padrna), and of all the occurrences
of that time, is, therefore, called Padma "by
the wise. It con-
tains 55,000 stanzas." The work is divided into five Looks or
IQiawcZas :
"
(i.) Sn'sM Kliawda, or section on creation; (2.)
Bhumi Kliawrfa, on the earth ; (3.) Swarga Khawtfa, on heaven;
(4.) Patala Kha??^a, on the regions below the earth ; (5.) Uttara
Kha?wZa, last or supplementary chapter. There is also current
a sixth division, the Kriya-yoga-sara, a treatise on the practice
of devotion." These denominations of the various divisions
convey but an imperfect and partial notion of their heterogeneous
contents, and it seems probable that the different sections
are distinct works associated together under one title. There is no
reason to consider any of them as older than the twelfth century.
The tone of the whole Purawa is strongly Yaishnava that of ;
the
last section especially so. In it $rva is represented as explaining
to Parvati the nature and attributes of Vishwu; and in the
end the two join in adoration of that deity. A few chapters
have been printed and translated into Latin by WoUheira.
PAHLAYA. Name of a people. Mann places the Pahlavas
among the northern nations, and perhaps the name is connected
with the word Pahlavi, i.e. y Persian. They let their beards grow
by command of King Sagara, According to Manu, they were