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India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s3.t1.67

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c10.s3.t1.67

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c10.s3.t1.67

88). The name *Śiśukrandīya* suggests that the poem related to the Birth of Kṛishṇa, literally 'a work dealing with the cry-ing of child (*śiśu*, Kṛishṇa at the time of birth).' The second name was probably that of a drama dealing with the subject of Yama's Assembly (*Yama-sabhā*). The third name *Indra-jananīya* was that of a work dealing with the subject of Indra's birth and his slaying of the demon Vṛitra, being an ancient legend in which Tvashtā and Dadhīchi also played a part.