adjective

1. reddish-yellow, brown, tawny SN.i.170; Ja.vi.199 (= pingiya).
2. red-eyed, as sign of ugliness Ja.iv.245 (as np. combined with nikkhanta-dāṭha); Ja.v.42 (tamba-dāṭhika nibbiddha-pingala); Pv.ii.4#1 (= ˚locana Pv-a.90 + kaḷāra-danta).

• -kipillaka the red ant Dhp-a.iii.206.
• -cakkhutā redeyedness Pv-a.250.
• -makkhikā the gadfly Ja.iii.263 (= ḍaṃsa) Cnd.268 = Snp-a.101 (id.); Snp-a.33 (where a distinction is made between kāṇa-makkhikā and pingala˚), Snp-a.572 (= ḍaṃsa).

see piṃsati¹, cp. Vedic pingala