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पगोद (pagoda)

 
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
pagoda, also called ‘star pagoda’
Anglicised form of the name
of the gold coin called gadyāṇa, hūn (hon) or varāha
since the
word pagoda also meant ‘a temple’, the coin seems to have been
so named owing to the representation of a temple or a deity on
it
pagoda may be a corruption of bhagavatī meaning ‘the mother-
goddess’.