Purūravas
mythological figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
in the texts
Rigveda
Legendary righteous king favored by Agni.
for righteous Purūravas you were even more beneficent.
O Purūravas, do not die;
let Urvaśī extend long life.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Legendary king associated with Urvaśī, invoked in Rāvaṇa's warning to Sītā.
"For having rejected me, O timid one, you will come to grief, as Urvaśī did when she struck away Purūravas with her foot.
Then, in the ninth month, the fair-hipped Ilā gave birth to a son — Purūravas — begotten by the son of Soma.
Ila in due time attained the unsurpassed world of Brahmā, and the king Purūravas, son of Ila, obtained Pratiṣṭhāna.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Legendary hero-king figure here identified with Indra as a healer who reunites what is broken or torn.
He who is shattered even apart from harm, torn before the collar-bones — the bounteous Indra, Purūravas, is the reuniter of joints, the restorer of what is wrenched asunder.