ORIENTAL SERIES.

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Kshatriyas who had become outcasts, but the Maha-bharata says
they were created from the tail of Vasishftia's cow of fortune
and the Ramaya^a states that they sprang from her breath.
They are also called Pahnavas.
PAUAVANA. A name of the King Sudas, his patronymic
as son of Prjavana.
PAILA. A learned man who was appointed in ancient days
to collect the hymns of the J&g-veda. He arranged it in two
parts, and must have been a coadjutor of Yeda Yyasa.
PAKA-SASANA. A name of Indra, and of Arjuna as de-
scended from Indra.
PALAKAPYA. An ancient sage who wrote upon medicine,
and is supposed to have been an incarnation of Dhanwantari.
PAilPJL A river which rises in the .ft/shyamuka mountain
and falls into the Tungabhadra below Anagundi. Also a lake
in the same locality.
PANCHA-CHUDA. A name of Kambha,
PANCHAJANA. i. Name of a demon who lived in the sea
in the form of a conch-shell. He seized the son of Sandipani,
under whom "Krishna, learnt the use of arms. Kn'shm rescued
the boy, killed the demon, and afterwards used the conch-shell
for a horn. 2. A name of Asamanjas (q.v.).
PANCHAJANYA. Krishna's conch, formed from the shell
of the sea-demon Panchajana.
PANCHALA. Name of a country. From the Mahabharata
it would seem to have occupied the Lower Doab Manu
places it near Kanauj. It has sometimes been identified with
the Panjab, and with " a little territory in the more immediate
neighbourhood of Hastinapur." Wilson says, " A country extending
north and west from Delhi, from the foot of the Hima-
layas to the ChambaL" It was divided into Northern and
Southern Panchalas, and the Ganges separated them.
ham considers ISTorth Panchala to be Rohilkhand,
Cunning-
and South
Panchala the Gangetic Doab. The capital of the former was
Ahi-chhatra, whose ruins are found near Kamnagar, and of the
latter Kampilya, identical with the modern Kampila, on the old
Ganges between Badaun and Famikhabad
PANCHA-LAKSHAJVA. The five distinguishing character-
istics of a Pura^a. See Pura^a,
PANCHALl Draupadi as princess of Panchala,