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sāṃdīpani m. (fr. sam-dipana) N. of a Muni (accord. to VP. he was the tutor of Kṛishna and Bala-rama, and requested as his preceptor's fee that his son, supposed to be drowned in the sea but kept under the waters by the demon Pañca-jana, should be restored to him
• Kṛishṇa plunged into the sea, killed the demon, and brought back the boy to his father) Hariv. Kād. Pur
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Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by M. Monier William