paMktiH f. [ paMc vistare ktiv ] 1 A line, row, range, series; dfSyeta cArupadapaMktiralaktakAMkA V. 4. 6 ; pakzmapaMktiH ( pb ) R. 2. 19 ; alipaMktiH Ku. 4. 15 ; R. 6. 5. 2 A group, collection, flock, troop. 3 A row of people (of the same caste) sitting down to a meal, a company or party at dinner of the same caste; cf. paMktipAvana below. 4 The living generation. 5 The earth. 6 Fame, celebrity. 7 A collection of five, or the number ‘five’. 8 The number ‘ten’ as in paMktiraTa, paMktigrIva . 9 Cooking, maturing, 10 A company of persons of the same tribe. Comp. — kaMwakaH = paMktidUzaka q. v. — grIvaH an epithet of Rāvaṇa. — caraH an osprey. — dUzaH — dUzakaH a person defiling a society of persons, one with whom it is improper to associate at dinner-time. — pAMvanaH a respectable or eminent person; especially, a respectable Brāhmaṇa who, being very learned, always gets the seat of honour at dinner parties, or who purifies by his preence the paMkti or persons who sit in the same row to dine with him; paMktipAvanAH paMcAgnayaH Māl. 1 , where Jagaddhara says: — paMktipAvanAH paMktO BojanAdigozWyAM pAvanAH . agraBojinaH pavitrA vA . yadvA . yajuzAM pArago yastu sAmnAM yaScApi pAragaH . aTarvaSiraso'DyetA brAhmaRaH paMktipAvanaH .. or agryAH sarvezu vedezu sarvaMpravacenazu ca . yAvadete prapaSyaMti paMktyAM tAvatpunaMti ca .. tato hi pAvanAtpaMktyA ucyaMte paMktipAvanAH . Manu explains the word thus. - apAMktyopahatA paMktiH pAvyate yErdvijottaBEH . tAnniboData kArtsnyena dvijAgryAn paMktipAvanAn Ms. 3. 183 ; see 3. 184 , 186 also. — raTaH N. of Daśaratha; R. 9. 74.