lion - "five-faced"

[Allen W Thrasher]

Ashok said, "In the meanwhile, I will simply observe that pa;nca could
be connected to
the root pa;nc that is found in words such as prapa;nca and must have
some
such sense as 'expand, proliferate.'

ashok aklujkar"

I thought prapanca had something to do with the splitting into the five
elements.

Allen




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