A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.1425

c5.1425

PURUKUTSA. A son of Māndhātṛi, into whose person Vishṇu entered for the purpose of destroying the subterranean Gandharvas, called Mauneyas. He reigned on the banks of the Narmadā, and that river personified as one of the Nāgas was his wife. By her he had a son, Trasadasyu. The Vishṇu Purāṇa is said to have been narrated to him by “Daksha and other venerable sages.”