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PARIKSHIT PARTHA.
Dwaraka and planted there, "but after 'Krishna's death it returned
to India's heaven.
PARIKSHIT. Son of Abhimanyu by his wife Uttara,
grandson of Arjuna, and father of Janamejaya. He was killed
by Aswatthaman in the womb of his mother and was born dead,
but he was brought to life by Krishna, who blessed him and
cursed Aswattharnan. When Yudhi-sh&ira retired from the
world, Parikshit succeeded him on the throne of Hastina-pura.
He died from the bite of a serpent, and the Bhagavata Purawa
is represented as having been rehearsed to him in the interval
between the bite and his death. Also written Parikshit.
PAEIPATRA. The northern part of the Vindhya range of
mountains. According to the Hari-vansa, it was the scene of the
combat between Krishna, and Indra, and its heights sank down
under the pressure of Krishna's feet. Also called Pariyatra.
PABISHAD. A college or community of Brahmans asso-
ciated for the study of the Yedas.
PAKLSISHTA. A supplement or appendix. A series of
works called Parisish/as belong to the Yedic period, but they
are the last of the series, and indicate a transition state. They
" supply information on theological or ceremonial points which
had been passed over in the Sutras, and they treat everything in
a popular and superficial manner, as if the time was gone when
students would spend ten or twenty years of their lives in
fathoming the mysteries and mastering the intricacies ol the
Brahmana literature." Max Muller,
PAEIYEAJAKA A religious mendicant. A Brahman in
the fourth stage of his religious life. See Brahman.
PARJANYA. i. A Yedic deity, the rain-god or rain per-
sonified. Three hymns in the J&g-veda are addressed to this
deity, and one of them is very poetical and picturesque in de-
scribing rain and its effects. The name is sometimes combined
with the word vata (wind), parjanyctr-vata, referring probably to
the combined powers and effects of rain and wind. In later
times he is regarded as the guardian deity of clouds and rain,
and the name is applied to Indra. 2. One of the Adityas,
PARSHADA, Any treatise on the Yedas produced
in a
Parishad or Yedic college.
PARTHA. A son of Pritha or KuntT. A title applicable to
the three elder Pa?zdavas, but especially used for Arjuna.