Puloma : the Asuric wife of Bhrigu, the mother of Rishi Chyavana.
... the Pulomas (lit. , the Puloma-offspring) and the Āndhras at an interval from Mahāpadrna - that interval was 836 years. " Here the Āndhras and the Pulomas stand for the same dynasty: "Puloma" is clearly a dynastic term just as "Āndhra" is. Conse- : quently, it would be quite reasonable to believe that "Siroptolemaios" is a dynastic label for a late scion of the Puloma alias Āndhra line.... confined to Greek names. And several Indian or Persian or Perso-Indian names can accidentally echo Greek ones. We have dwelt sufficiently on such counterparts to Magas: we may list a few more. The name "Puloma" which the Matsya Purāna twice gives in its series of the Āndhra kings 1 corresponds closely to "Polemo", the name of a Greek writer subsequent to Megasthenes. 2 Puliśa, an astronomer mentioned... the length of Āndhra monarchy no less than on the Āndhras' connection with Magadha. They grant them no more than 257 years: the dynasty starts in c. 30 B.C., with Simuka and ends in c. 227 A.D. with Puloma. 1 We have seen no reason to cut down their period so drastically. The Purānas give the impression of being the most historically minded where the Āndhras and the kings of more or less the same time ...
... movements and vague but colossal revolutions. In later story his issue form one of the most sacred clans of Rishies, and Purshurama, the destroyer of princes, was of his offspring. By the Titaness Puloma this mighty seer and patriarch, himself one of the mind-children of Brahma had a son Chyavan—who inherited even from the womb his father's personality, greatness and ascetic energy. Chyavan too became... offspring. Afterwards as the vigour of the race exhausted itself, the inner fire dwindled and waned. But at first even the unborn child was divine. When Chyavan was in the womb, a Titan to whom his mother Puloma had been betrothed before she was given to Bhrigou, attempted to carry off his lost love in the absence of the Rishi. It is told that the child in the womb felt the affront and issued from his mother... maiden Surmishtha, child of imperial Vrishopurvan (for the Asuras or Daityas, on the [terrestrial] 3 plane, signified the adversaries of Page 135 Aryan civilisation), and Bhrigou's wife, Puloma, was of the Titan blood. Chief of the Gods were Indra, King and Thunderer, who came down when men sacrificed and drank the Soma wine of the offering; Vaiou, the Wind; Agni, who is Hutaashon, devourer ...
... Oriental Research Institute, Poona, 1946), Vol. Ill, pp. 899-900. 5.Strictly speaking, the first part of the expression employed - paulomastu tathāndhrastu - means "the offspring of Puloma". Perhaps a Puloma founded the family and perhaps that is why there were a number of Pulomas in the Āndhra dynasty. Page 5 1500+836 is said to be there from the Āndhras back to Parīkshit ...
... 520, 530, 540-41, 602, 603-4 Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 226, 238, 267, 272, 434, 435, 452 Pul-i-Darunteh, 235, 322 Pulakesin II, 2, 3, 50, 228, 605 Pulindas, 530 Pulisa, 25, 280 Puloma, 280, 339, 479 Pulomas (Āndhras), 5, 478-9, 603-4 Pulumāvi (the last Āndhra), 469, 471, 478, 571, 572 Pundras, 274 Purarhdhi, 448 Purānakaras, 91 Purānas, 68, 339, 474, 475 ...
... fourteen thousand rākshasas in Janasthāna unaided by his brother (Laksmana)? (16) That jewel among men cannot be shaken by woes. I know his might (even) as Śacī (sprung from the loins of the demon Puloma) knows the might of (her husband) Indra, (17) The valiant Śrī Rāma, who is like the sun with his shafts for rays, 0 monkey/will (surely) dry up the water in the form of the hostile rākshasas."(18) ...
... and Titans old. An Apsara his mother liquid-orbed Page 136 Bore to the youthful Chyavan's strong embrace This passionate face of earth with Eden touched. Chyavan was Bhrigu's child, Puloma bore, The Titaness,– Bhrigu, great Brahma's son. Love gave the flower that helps by anguish; therefore He chilled not with the breath of Hades, nor The cry of the infernal stream made stone." ...
... with a series of "intervals", they have in each case the opposite movement. They begin by passing from Mahāpadma's coronation to the birth of Parīkshit. Then they go to the "interval" from the Pulomas-Āndhras to Mahāpadma. And, then, referring to the whole period constituted by the two time-lengths given, they tell us of the "interval" from the time that has the Āndhras at its end to the time ...
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