Chapter PAGODA-TREE to PAILOO of P by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

to any particular period or dialect. It is thus found applied to the cuneiform inscriptions at Persepolis. (Derived from West as quoted above, and from Haug’s Essays, ed. London, 1878.)

c. 930.—“Quant au mot dirafeh, en pehlvi (al-fahlviya) c’est à dire dans la langue primitive de la Perse, il signifie drapeau, pique et étendard.”—Mas’udi, iii. 252.

c. A.D. 1000.—“Gayômarth, who was called Girshâh, because Gir means in Pahlavi a mountain.…”—Albîrûnî, Chronology, 108.

PAILOO, s. The so-called ‘triumphal arches,’ or gateways, which form so prominent a feature in Chinese landscape, really monumental erections in honour of deceased persons of eminent virtue. Chin. pai, ‘a tablet,’ and lo, ‘a stage or erection.’ Mr. Fergusson has shown the construction to have been derived from India with Buddhism (see Indian and Eastern Architecture, pp. 700–702). [So the Torii of Japan seem to represent Skt. torana, ‘an archway’ (see Chamberlain, Things Japanese, 3rd ed. 407 seq.).]