[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c4.987 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c4.987 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c4.987 - **Language:** English ### [c4.987](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c4.987) 2) Father died before he was born. When Sujātā was pregnant they suffered much from poverty and at the insistence of Sujātā, Khagodara went to the King Janaka, to beg for some money. Janaka was performing a yāga then and so Khagodara had to wait. When at last he went to the royal assembly he was asked to enter into a polemical contest with Vāndina, the court scholar and having defeated by him was asked to drown himself. - [Previous: c4.986](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c4.986) - [Next: c4.988](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c4.988) - [Up: c4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c4.987](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c4.987) · Pramāṇa