Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.963

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.963

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c7.963

70) The name Purandara. Sardar K. M. Panikkar in his preface to Ṛgveda Saṃhitā says that Indra got the name Purandara because he destroyed the cities (Puras) of the Dasyus. But in Chapter 71, of Vāmana Purāṇa, we are told that he got this name because he killed "Pura", the son of Mahābali.

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Vāmanapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
Ṛgvedasaṃhitā — Sanskrit