adjective pale-red or yellow, reddish, light yellow, grey; only at Thig.79 (kisā paṇḍu vivaṇṇā), where paṇḍu represents the usual up-paṇḍ’-uppaṇḍuka-jātā: “thin, pale and colourless” (see Thag-a.80). Otherwise only in compounds e.g.

-kambala a light red blanket, orange-coloured cloth SN.i.64 (= ratta-kambala C.); AN.i.181; Snp.689 (= ratta Snp-a.487); also a kind of ornamental stone, Sakka’s throne (p-k- silā) is made of it Ja.i.330; Ja.ii.93; Ja.ii.53 (˚silāsana); Ja.v.92 (id.); Pv.ii.9#60 (˚silā = p-k-nāmaka sīlāsana Pv-a.138); Vv-a.110 (id.); Kp-a.122 (˚varāsana); Dhp-a.i.17 (˚silāsana). -palāsa a withered leaf Vin.i.96 = Vin.iii.47; Vin.iv.217; Dhp.233, Vb-a.244; Kp-a.62 on ˚palāsika (DN-a.i.270) see J.P.T.S. 1893, 37. -mattikā yellow loam, clay soil Kp-a.59. -roga jaundice Vin.i.206 (˚ābādha), Vin.i.276 (id.); Ja.i.431; Ja.ii.102; Dhp-a.i.25 -rogin suffering from jaundice Ja.ii.285; Ja.iii.401. -vīṇā yellow flute (of Pañcasikha): see beluva
■ sīha yellow lion, one of the 4 kinds Snp-a.125 (cp. Manor- pūr. on AN.ii.33). -sutta orange-coloured string DN.i.76.

cp. Ved. pāṇḍu, palita, pāṭala (pale-red); Gr. πελιτνός, πελλός, πόλιος (grey); Lat. palleo (to be pale), pullus (grey); Lith. patvas (pale-yellow), pilkas (grey); Ohg. falo (pale, yellowish, withered); E. pale