A glossary of judicial and revenue terms and of useful words occurring in official documents relating to the administration of the government of British India, from the Arabic, Persian, Hindustani, Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, Uriya, Marathi, Guzarathi, Telugu, Karnata, Tamil, Malayalam and other languages. Compiled and published under the authority of the Honorable the Court of Directors of the East-India Co (1855)

Please this book for the meaning of PURSIS

This is a Marathi word of Persian Origin which originally meant'

A QUESTIONING OR INTERROGATING AS OF PARTIES OR WITNESSES IN A DISPUTE

Nowadays it is used to mean a statement made to the court

PURSIS