ORIENTAL SERIES.

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PIYADASI See Asoka.
PEABHASA A place of pilgrimage on the coast of Gujarat,
near to Dwaraka, and also near to the temple of Soma-natha
PEABHAVATL Wife of Pradyumna (q.v.).
PEABODHA-CHAKDEODAYA.
of knowledge. 7 A
l The rise of the moon
philosophical drama by Iv/'/sh??a Misra, who
is supposed to have lived about the twelfth century. Jt has
been translated into English by Dr. Taylor, and into German
by Eosenkranz and by HirzeL
PEACHAJVDA-PAJVDAVA. <
The incensed Papayas.' A
drama in two acts by Eaja $ekhara, the main incident in which
is the outrage of Draupad! by the assembled Kaurava princes.
PEACHETAS. i. One of the Prajapatis. 2. An ancient sage
and lawgiver. 3. The ten Prachetasas were sons of Prachina-
barhis and great-grandsons of Prithu, and, according to the
Vishnu Purawa, they passed ten thousand years in the great
ocean, deep in meditation upon Vishnu, and obtained from him
the boon of becoming the progenitors of mankind. They took
to wife Marisha, daughter of Kaw^u, and Daksha was their son.
See Daksha.
PEACHYAS. The people of the east; those east of the
the Prasii of the Greeks.
PEADHANA. Matter. Primary matter, or nature as opposed
Ganges ;
to spirit.
PEADYUMNA. A son of Knshna by Eukmiwi. When a
child only six days old, he was stolen by the demon Sambara
and thrown into the ocean. There he was swallowed by a fish,
which was afterwards caught and carried to the house of Sambara.
When the fish was opened, a beautiful child was discovered, and
Maya-devi or Maya-vati, the mistress of Sambara's household,
took him under her care. The sage Narada informed her who
the child was, and she reared him carefully. When he grew up
she fell in love with him, and informed him who he was and
how he had been carried off by $ambara. He defied the demon to
battle, and after a long conflict slew him. Then he flew through
the air with Mayavati, and alighted in the inner apartments of his
father's palace. Krishna presented him to his mother EukmiwI
"
with the virtuous Mayavati his wife," declaring her really to
be the goddess Eati. Pradyumna also married Kakudmati, the
daughter of Eukmin, and had by her a son named Aniruddha