ORIENTAL SERIES.

PURAN-JA YAPURU-RA VAS. 247
Vasishtfha, These works are not common, Other modern
works exist to which the term Parana has been applied.
An account of each of the eighteen great Puranas is given
under its own name.
PUEAN-JAYA.
'
City-conqueror.' A prince of the Solar
race, son of Vikukshi, His story, as told in the Vishnu Puram,
is that in the Treta age there was war between the gods and
the Asuras, in which the former were worsted. They had recourse
to Vishnu for assistance, and he directed them to obtain
the aid of Puran-jaya, into whose person he promised
to infuse
a portion of himself. The prince complied with their wishes,
and asked that their chief, Indra, would assume the form of a
bull and carry him, the prince, upon his hump. This was done,
and thus seated Puran-jaya destroyed all the enemies of the
gods. As he rode on the hump he obtained the cognomen of
Kakut-stha. In explanation of his title Puran-jaya, the Bha-
gavata Purana says that he took the city of the Daityas situated
in the west.
PUEOCHANA- The emissary of Dur-yodhana who at-
tempted to burn the Pan