ABSTRACT
Purravas conquered thirteen islands in the ocean. Very famous, he was a true human, surrounded by inhuman beings. Unhinged by his manliness, Purravas quarrelled with brahmins and confiscated treasures from them – even from the ones who made a fuss about it. Sanatkumra came to him, king, from Brahm’s heaven; and he tried to teach him, but Purravas wouldn’t have it. So he was immediately cursed by the great is in their fury, and that was the end of him: the ruler of his people, full of greed, lost his good name through the power of his presumption. But that sovereign, who lived in the world of the gandharvas with Urva, did bring back – and rightly so – the three fires that are prescribed for ritual business.
