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PRAMANAKOTI.-A wooden structure used
as bathing stand, projecting into the Ganges;
Bhima, who was sleeping there, tired after
swimming, was thrown into the Ganges
by Duryodhana.
 
PRATIKAMI (-MIN).-Of the Suta caste;
the messenger attending on Duryodhana
who goes to Draupadi to inform her that she
had been made a slave in the game of dice.
Some take it as a common name meaning
the proper name of
 
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messenger, some
that particular messenger.
 
PRATIPA. A king of the line of Bharata;
father of king Santanu.
 
PRATISMRITI.-A Mantra; it is by the
power of this Mantra that Arjuna wins
the favour of God Siva and Indra and
gots divine missiles from them.
 
PRATIVINDHYA.-Son of Yudhisthira and
 
Draupadi,
 
PRISHATA. The father of Drupada, king
of the Panchalas; he was the son of king
Somaka. From him king Drupada takes the
name Parshata and Draupadi, as Parshata's
daughter, is referred to as Parshati.
 
PRITHA-KUNTI.-Daughter of Sura, the
Yadava chief; originally called Pritha, but
later called Kunti having been adopted as
daughter by a cousin of Sura, king
Kuntibhoja of the Bhojas; first wife of
Pandu; mother of the first three Pandavas,
Yudhishthira, Bhima and Arjuna.
 
PUROCHANA.-A minister and ally of
Duryodhana; Duryodhana entrusts him