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others "black and furious. Elsewhere it is said that the eleven
Eudras were sons of Kasyapa and Surabhi, and in another
chapter of the same Purana it is represented that Brahma
desired to create a son, and that Eudra came into existence as a
youth, He wept and asked for a name. Brahma gave him the
name of Eudra ; but he wept seven times more, and so he
obtained seven other names : Bhava, $arva, Isana, Pajrupati,
Bhima, Ugra, and Maha-deva. Other of the Pura?ias agree in
this nomenclature. These names are sometimes used for Eudra
or /Siva himself, and at others for the seven manifestations of
him, sometimes called his sons. The names of the eleven
Eudras vary considerably in different books.
BUDEA-SAVAEJVA, The twelfth Manu. See Manu.
EUKMIK A son of King Bhishmaka and king of Yidarbha,
who offered his services to the PamZavas and Kauravas in turn,
but was rejected by both on account of his extravagant boastings
and pretensions. He was brother of Eukmim, with whom
Knslma eloped Eukmin pursued the fugitives and overtook
them, but his army was defeated by Knsh?za 5
and he owed his
life to the entreaties of his sister. He founded the city of
Bhoja-kafe, and was eventually killed by Bala-rama.
ETJKMIJVI Daughter of Bhishmaka, king of Vidarbha.
According to the Hari-vansa she was sought in marriage by
Krislma, with whom she fell in love. But her brother Eukmin
was a friend of Kansa, whom Krishna had killed. He therefore
opposed him and thwarted the match. Eukmiwi was then
betrothed to
Sisu-pala, king of Chedi, but on her wedding day,
as she was going to the temple, " Krishna saw her, took her by
the hand, and carried her away in his chariot." They were
pursued by her intended husband and by her brother Eukmin,
but Krishna defeated them both, and took her safe to Dwaraka,
where he married her, She was his principal wife and bore him
a son, Pradyumna (q.v.). By him also she had nine other sons
and one daughter. "These other sons were Charu-deshna,
Su-deshwa, Charu-deha, Su-shena, Charu-gupta, Bhadra-charu,
Charu-vinda, Su-charu, and the very mighty Charu ; also one
daughter, Charu-matL" At Krishna's death she and seven other
of his wives immolated themselves on his funeral pila
EtfMA. Wife of the monkey king Su-grlva,
$ABALAWAS. Sons of Daksha, one thousand in number,