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purūravas

purū—rávas mfn. crying much or loudly, [RV. i, 31, 4]

purū—rávas m. N. of an ancient king of the lunar race (the lover of Urvaśī [cf. [RV. x, 95]; [ŚBr. xi, 5, 1] and Kālidāsa's drama Vikramorvaśī], son of Budha and Iḻā, father of Āyus and ancestor of Puru Duṣyanta, Bharata, Kuru, Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Pāṇḍu, supposed to have instituted the 3 sacrificial fires [[VS. v, 2]]; according to [Nir. x, 46] he is one of the beings belonging to the middle region of the universe, and is possibly to be connected with the Sun as Urvaśī is with the Dawn; according to others a Viśva-deva or a Pārvaṇa-śrāddha-deva), [RV.] &c.

purū-ravas See col. 1.