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.
Thus these gods say to you, O son of Iḷā, even as you are here a kinsman of death:
I came after your sign, O Purūravas — you were a king among heroes, the soul of my body.
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.
Ila in due time attained the unsurpassed world of Brahmā, and the king Purūravas, son of Ila, obtained Pratiṣṭhāna.
No sooner was he born than the fair-hipped one placed him in his father's hands — that mighty son of Ilā, equal in complexion to Budha.
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.