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PRAD YUMNA-VIJA YAPRAHLADA.
Pradyumna was killed at Dwaraka in the presence of his father
during a drunken "brawl Though Pradyumna passed as the
son of Krishna, he was, according to the legend, a revival 01
resuscitation of Kama, the god of love, who was reduced to ashes
by the fiery glance of #iva, and so the name Pradyumna is used
for Kama. (See Kama.) The Yishmi Puraraa puts the follow-
ing words into the mouth of Narada when he presented Pradyumna
to Eukmim :
" When Manmatha (the deity of love) had
perished, the goddess of beauty (Eati),
desirous to secure his
revival, assumed a delusive form, and by her charms fascinated
the demon $ambara, and exhibited herself to him in various
illusory enjoyments. This thy son is the descended Kama;
and this is (the goddess) Eati, his wife. There is no occasion
for any uncertainty ; this is thy daughter-in-law." In the Hari-
vansa he has a wife named Prabhavati, daughter of King Yajra-
nabha, When he went to see her for the first time, he changed
himself into a bee and lived in a garland of flowers which had
been prepared for her. According to the Maha-bharata, he was
Sanat-kumara, the son of Brahma.
PEADYIIMNA-YIJAYA. 'Pradyumna victorious/ A
drama in seven acts upon the victory of Pradyumna over the
Daitya Yajra-nabha, written by $ankara Dlkshita about the
"
middle of the last century. The play is the work of a Pawrfit,
not of a poet." Wilson.
PEAG-JYOTISHA. A city situated in the east, in Kaniariipa
on the borders of Assam. See JN"araka.
PEAHLADA, PEAHEADA. A Daitya, son of Hira^yakasipu
and father of Bali Hirarcya-kasipu, in his wars with the
gods, had wrested the sovereignty of heaven from Indra and
dwelt there in luxury. His son Prahlada, while yet a boy,
became an ardent devotee of Yish^u, which so enraged his
father that he ordered the boy to be killed \ but not the weapons
of the Daityas, the fangs of the serpents, the tusks of the
celestial elephants, nor the flames of fire took any effect, and his
father was constrained to send him back to his preceptor, where
he continued so earnest in performing and promoting the wor-
ship of Yishmz that he eventually obtained final exemption
from existence. According to some accounts, it was to avenge
Prahlada, as well as to vindicate his own insulted majesty, that
YisltfHi t>ecanie incarnate as the ]ara-sinha *
roan-lion,' and slew