Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.2364

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.2364

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c8.2364

Kṣemaka alias Śunaka father of Pradyota was killed by Mlecchas (a barbarous tribe). To avenge the death of his father Pradyota under the advice of Nārada decided to conduct a Mleccha Yajña and for that purpose dug a Yajñakuṇḍa seventeen miles long and seventeen miles wide. The Yajña started and in that Yajña different kinds of Mlecchas were burnt to death. From then onwards Pradyumna got the name ‘Mlecchahantā’ (killer of Mlecchas). (Bhavisya Purāṇa).

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Bhaviṣyapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit