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Painnagajjhayana (Prakirṇakadhyayana)
1. NanCu. p. 60.
Pailla (Prakalya)
1. Sur. 107, SurM. p. 295, Sth. 90.
Paiva (Pradipa)
1. Jna. 122.
2. Pauma
1. Jiv. 176.
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Same as Payalla.1
1. Pauma (Padma) A big lotus in the centre of lake Nilavamta(2). It is one yojana in length as well as in breadth. Its thickness is half a yojana. Its circumference measures somewhat more than three yojanas. It is ten yojanas deep into and two Krośas high above the water. It measures from bottom to top somewhat more than ten yojanas.1
1. Jiv. 149. The readings of the text and the commentary seem to be erroneous. See Jam. 73.
A Jāyava prince.
Same as Painnaga.1
8. Pauma
3. Pauma
A celestial abode in Sahassarakappa where gods have maximum span of life of eighteen fortnights and have desire for food once in eighteen thousand years.1
1. Sam. 18.
One of the two deities presiding over Pukkharavaradiva.1
4. Pauma A celestial abode in Mahasukka(1) where gods have maximum span of life of seventeen sägaropama years. They breathe once in seventeen fortnights and have desire for food once in seventeen thousand years.1
1. Sam. 17.
5. Pauma
Eighth would-be Baladeva(2) of the Bharaha(2) region.1 1. Sam. 158, Tir. 1144.
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Pauma
1. Jna. 157.
6. Pauma Eighth Baladeva(2) of the Bharaha(2) region. He was son of king Dasaraha(1) and his queen, Aparaiya(3) and brother of Vasudeva(1) Nārāyaṇa(8). In his previous birth he was Aparaiya(8). Pauma was 16 bows tall. Rayagiha is said to be his birthplace as well as of his brother Nārāyaṇa(1). He renounced the world and attained emancipation. He lived for 15000 years. See also Rāma(2).
1. Sam. 158, Tir. 577, AvaN. 408, 602-616, Vis. 1771, Sth. 672, AvaBh. 41, AvaN. 403-414.
7. Pauma Eighth would-be Cakkavatti of the Bharaha(2) region.1
1. Sam. 158, Tir. 1125.
A merchant of Savatthi who was the father of Pauma(5),1
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