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century A.D., when it was visited by Jayapida. king of Kasmir, during the reign of Jayanta. Ilyas Shah after a long struggle united Eastern Bengal, the capital of which was Sonargdon (near Dacca) and Western Bengal, the capital of which was Satgaon, in 1352, and the provincial capital was fixed at Pandua to which Firoz gave his own name and Ferozabad remained the capital till 1446 (Lane Poole's Mediaval India under Mahomedan Ruile,
p. 164). 2. Same as Pundra-deba. Purált --Travancore; the Paralia of Ptolemy and the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea (800
Schoff's Periplus, p. 234). It is a corruption of Paraloka, celebrated for its pearl fishery
(Bhoja's Yukti-Kalpataru, published in Law's Calcutta Oriental Series, pp. 111, 112). Purânadhishtbâna-Pandritan, about four miles to the south-east of Srinagar. It was the ancient capital of Kasmir (Rajataranginf, Bk. V, v. 266). The capital was removed
to Srinagara which was built by Pravarasena who reigned from 432 to 464 A.D. Puri-Jagannath in Orissa. It was visited by Vajrasvåmin, the Jaina patriaroh after
Suhastin. It was then governed by a Buddhist king (Sthavirdvali. XII. 334). Purika-1. Perhaps Paura, the capital of Gedrosia (Mbh., Santi, 111; cf. McCrindle's In
vasion of India by Alexander, p. 172). 2. A country on the Nerbuda (Brihat Samhita, ch.
14; Mark. P., ch. 57). Pural-1. A branch of the Tapti (Padma P., Uttara, ch. 41): but gee Payoshnl. 2. The
river Paira, a branch of the Godavari (Brahma P., ch. 106). Purnadarba-Kaliðjar (Vayu P., ch. 45). Purushapura-Peshawar, the capital of Gândhâra (Devi Purdna, ch. 46). See Gandhåra and
Nava-Gandhara. It was the capital of Kanishka who built hero a relio tower containing - superstructure of carved wood of thirteen storeys, the ruins of which still exist in the mound called Shahji-ki-Dheri outside the Lahore gate of Peshawar (JRAS., 1912, p. 113). A magnificent monastery built by Kanishka stood by its side; it was destroyed during the invasions of Mahmud of Ghazni and his successors (Vincent A. Smith's Early History of India, p. 227). For Kanishka's contemporaries see Tamasavana. It was called Purushawar in the eleventh century A.D. (Alberuni's India, Vol. I, p. 206). Phe Buddhist monk Asanga lived here in the 6th century A.D. It was also the birth-placa
of Vasubhandu, Asanga's youngest brother (JRAS., 1905, p. 37). Purushni-Same as Parushni. Parushottama-kshetra Puri in Orissa (see Srikshetra and Puri). Indradyumna,
king of Malwa, is said to have caused the image of Jagannath to be made out of a log of wood which he found floating at Bankimohana, and set it up in a temple built by him. (Skanda P., Vishnu Kh., Purushottamakshetra-Mahat., ch. 1; Brahma P., oh. 51). The image was removed and kept concealed at Sonepur-Gopali, on the western border of Orissa, when it was attacked by a Yavana named Rakta våhu at the time of RAJA Siva Deva other. wine called Subhan Deo. The temple was destroyed by an extraordinary flood at the time of RaktavAhu's invasion. The image was recovered several centuries after by Raja Yayati Kesari in the sixth century of the Christian era. But the present temple was built by the minister Paramahamsa Bajpai at a cost of one crore of rupees by the order of Anauga (Anianka) Bhîma Deva. The image was afterwards burnt by a Hindu convert named Raju, who was called Kalapahad, the general of Suleman Shah, one of the Pathan kings of Bengal (Kailas Chandra Sen's Daru Brahma ; Stirling's Orissa). Cunningham ways in his Bhilaa Topes that the image of Jagannath was made according to the figure of the Buddhist Tri-ratna. In fact, the image of Jagannatha, Balarama and Subhadra
