Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.2738
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.2738
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3) Jñānappāna. Pūntānam got a son after a long time of prayer and for the ceremony of Annaprāśana (feeding rice for the first time) all the people of his community were invited. The women who came for the function threw their upper garments on to the cradle where the little child was suffocated to death. Pūntānam thereafter became disgusted with life and Jñānappāna was written at that time.