straw Ja.i.488; Dhp-a.i.69.

• -channaka a roof of thatch Thag.208.
• -piṇḍa a bundle of straw Vism.257 = Kp-a.56.
• -pīṭhaka “straw foot-stool,” a kind of punishment or torture MN.i.87; AN.ii.122 = Mil.197 (see Mil trsl. i.277 “Straw Seat, i.e. being so beaten with clubs, that the bones are broken, and the body becomes like a heap of straw) Mnd.154; Cnd.604; Ja.v.273.
• -puñja a heap of straw DN.i.71; MN.iii.3; AN.i.241; AN.ii.210; Pp.68; Vb-a.367
• -puñjaka same as puñja Mil.342.

cp. Ved. & Epic Sk. palāla