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Parasurama
5. Payǎvai One of thirty Muhuttas (divisions) of a day and night, It is also called Pāyāvacca.
1. Sur. 47, Jam. 152, Sam. 30.
Payāvati (Prajāpati)
1. Tir. 602.
Paramādhammiya (Paramādhārmika) See Paramahammiya,1
1. Pras. 28.
441
See Payāvai.1
Puramāhammiya (Paramādharmika) See Paramahammiya.1
1. Mahan. 94.
Paramāhammiya (Paramādharmika) A kind of gods with sinful disposi tions. These gods are also known as narakapālas (guards of hells). They are of fifteen types. Their names are Amba, Ambarisi(2), Asipatta, Uvarudda, Kala(8), Kumbha(1), Kharassara, Dhanu(2), Rudda(1), Vālu, Veyarani(3), Sabala(1), Sama(4), Mahākāla(12) and Mahaghosa(5). They are wicked by their nature and work. They torture hellish beings in various ways and adopt different methods for the same. They belong to the Asurakumāra sub-class of gods.5 They carry out the orders of Logapāla Jama(2).*
1. Bha. 166, Utt. 31.12, Pras. 28, Pak. p. 67, Mahan. p. 94, AvaN. II. p. 88.
2. SutCu. p. 154.
3. Sam. 15, AvaN. II. p. 93, Utts. p. 614, AvaCu. II. p. 136, Bha. 166, BhaA. p. 198, SutN. 68-69.
Paramahamsa A class of mendicants who lived on river-banks and confluence of streams and wore rags and discarded clothes.1
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4. SutN. 70-84, SutCu. pp. 154-156, UttS. p. 614, SamA. p. 29, PrasA. p. 143, AvaCu. II. p. 136.
3. SamA. p. 29, PrasA. p. 143, BhaA. p. 198.
6. Bha. 166.
1. Aup. 38, Aup. p. 92. Para surama (Parasurama) Son of ascetic Jamadaggi and Renuga, His original name was Rama(3), but owing to his expertness in the art of using axe (parasu-parasu) as an effective weapon, he was known as Parasurama. Once Reṇugā had enjoyed coition with king Anamtaviriya, husband of her own sister, and a son was born to her. This enraged Parasurama and he killed all the three-his own mother, the newly born child and Aṇamtaviriya. Kattaviriya, son of Anamtaviriya, killed Jamadaggi to take revenge of his father's murder. Parasurama killed king Kattaviriya as a vengeance of his father's assassination. He is said to have cleared the earth of Kṣatriyas seven times. Later Kattaviriya's son Subhuma(1) killed Parsurama and cleared the earth of Brahmaņas twenty-one times.1
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1. AvaCu. I. pp. 520-1, AcaCu. p. 49, Vis. 3575, Jiv. 89, JivM. p. 121, AcaSi, p. 100, SutSi. p. 170, Bhak. 153, SutCu. p. 209.
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