puri

plural puris · alternative poori · alternative puree

1. countableuncountableA type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan, usually deep-fried.

   No. 17 PURI. Take Flour, ½ ser (1lb.)

   1831, Sandford Arnot (translator), “Indian Cookery, as Practised and Described by the Natives of the East”, in Miscellaneous Translations from Oriental Languages, volume I, London: J.L. Cox, retrieved 03 Jul 2016, page 28

plural puris

1. In Bali and other parts of Indonesia, a palace, or other residence of a member of the royal family or ruling class.

1. A surname from Punjabi
2. A holy city in Odisha, India (the capital of Kalinga, noted for the adoration of Jagannath or Krishna) (IW., 244 n. 1).

   The game-changing factor in this transformation has been the development of the expansive marine drive road connecting Sipasarubali beach to Harekrushnapur on the outskirts of Puri.

   2025 January 28, Debabrata Mohapatra, “PURI: BEYOND TEMPLES AND BEACHES”, in The Times of India

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   As to the local rulers of Eastern Orissa this Chinese traveller does not give us vmj definite information; we only learn that the district of Puri which then obtained the name Kongada was under Brahminic influence and the rest of the eastern tract in the north, then designated as Ucha or Ukkala, was being governed by some rulers who had their seat somewhere in that part of the district of Midnapore which was once a part of Utkala.

   1925, B. C. Mazumdar, Orissa In The Making, University of Calcutta, pages 98-99

   A seat in the car of Jagannatha during the Car Festival at Puri is a great privilege to the devout and implies great social prestige also, as the Gajapati monarchs of Orissa used to ride in it. Their descendants do so today.

   1960, Mayadhar Mansinha, History of Oriya Literature, Sahitya Akademi, page 92

   Looking back through centuries to the process of history, one observes the amazing phenomenon that although only the tiny area of present districts of Balasore, Cuttack and Puri have all along remained together without any [...] formation of the State of Orissa.

   1964, Nabin Kumar Sahu, Utkal University History Of Orissa, volume 1, The Utkal University, page 3

   Thirdly, the sacred formula in the epic which identifies the vedi with Agni in the company of the Heavenly Waters and the Vedic Visnu—the one who supports the universe, of which he is the navel of order and the seed which unites heaven with earth—appears to relate to Puri.

   1994, O. M. Starza, The Jagannatha Temple at Puri: Its Architecture, Art, and Cult, Brill, →ISBN, page 5

3. A district of Odisha, India, in which the holy city is based.