Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.2239

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.2239

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c8.2239

PIṄGALA I. A deva who is an attendant of the Sun-god. Sūrya (Sun-god) rides in a one-wheeled chariot drawn by seven horses and he bears in his hands two lotuses. On his right side stands the attendant Daṇḍi with an ink-pot and a writing stick and on his left side stands the attendant Piṅgala with a stick. Both these are demi-god attendants of Sūrya. (Chapter 51, Agni Purāṇa).

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Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit