As a deity name
Name 958 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
पण · noun · masculine
कोई खेल जिसमें हारनेवाले को कुछ परिमित धन अथवा की निर्दिष्ट वस्तु जीतनेवाले को देनी पड़े । कोई कार्य जिसमें बाजी बदी गई हो । जूआ । द्यूत · प्रतिज्ञा । शर्त । मुआहिदा । कौल करार । संधि · वह वस्तु जिसके देने का करार या शर्त हो । जैसे, किराया, भाड़ा, परिश्रमिक आदि — Śabdasāgara
पण · pan · s.m.
Play, gaming; bet, wager; stake; a throw (of dice) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 269
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
play, gaming, playing for a stake, a bet or a wager (with gen.; loc. or ifc.; paṇaṃ-√ kṛ, to make a bet; to stake at play), &c.
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Dictionary citations
paṇa m. (ifc. f(ā). ) play, gaming, playing for a stake, a bet or a wager (with gen.; loc. or ifc.; paṇaṃ-√ kṛ, to make a bet; paṇe ni-√ as, to stake at play), Yājñ.; MBh.; R. &c.
a compact, stipulation, agreement, treaty, Kathās.; Vet.; Hit.
the thing staked or the sum played for, wages, hire, reward, MBh.; Mṛcch.; Kathās.
a weight of copper used as a coin (= 20 Māṣas = 4 Kākinīs), Mn.; Yājñ.
a partic. measure, Pāṇ. iii, 3, 66 (‘a handful’ Sch.)
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