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यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Purana Encyclopedia

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

PRABHAÑJANA I : The first son of Citravāhana, king of Maṇipura. Citravāhana who was without a son for a long time did penance for obtaining a son. Śiva was pleased with his penance and he blessed him and assured him of a son soon. (Śloka 29, Chapter 214, Ādi Parva).


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PRABHAÑJANA II : A king. He performed Śiva-worship for ten thousand years and attained Dikpālakatva. The name of his son was Pūtātmā. (Skanda Purāṇa, 41, 13).


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PRABHAÑJANA III : A Kṣatriya king. Once this king killed a deer while it was breast-feeding its child and by a curse of the mother-deer Prabhañjana had to live as a tiger for a hundred years. When the period of the curse was coming to an end, the tiger heard the advice of a cow called Nandā and got himself transformed into his original form of the king. (Chapter 18, Sṛṣṭi Khaṇḍa, Padma Purāṇa).


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