Doubtless the act of Heliodorus was a diplomatic courtesy, in order to please King Kāśīputra Bhāgabhadra.
When the Nambutiri has no male issue, he performs the putra kameshti or karmavipakaprayaschittam yagams or sacrifices to obtain it.
Putra (a son) is the one who saves from hell (put).
When he came to Kashmir, Katyâyanî-putra expounded the eight books to him and Aśvaghosha put them into literary form.
Katyâyanî-putra set up a stone inscribed with this proclamation.
Putra means literally one who saves from Put, a hell into which those who have not produced a son fall.
Thus, not only is the religious idea involved in the words Putra and Kumaran carried out, but also the premature strain on the generative faculties, which this tradition entails, is avoided.
Chiong Wanara forthwith invited Ke Jampang to accompany him to Surga Luka, in search of his father, Guru Putra Hinga Baya.
NOTES [1] The city which occupied the site of present Patna was known as Patali-Putra in the time of Alexander the Great.
Nervous breakdown after a particularly strenuous season was the usually accepted explanation, but there are three or four people who know that she never really recovered from the dawn breaking over the Brahma-putra river.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "putra" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
