Shloka 98
Puṣkara-Śapatha Itihāsa (Agastya–Indra Dispute at the Tīrthas) | पुष्कर-शपथ-आख्यानम्
गण्डोवाच वक्त्रैकदेशे गण्डेति धातुमेतं प्रचक्षते । तेनोन्नतेन गण्डेति विद्धि मानलसम्भवे
gaṇḍovāca vaktraikadeśe gaṇḍeti dhātum etaṁ pracakṣate | tenonnatena gaṇḍeti viddhi mānalasambhave ||
ガンダは言った。「語根（dhātu）『gaṇḍ』とは、顔の一部——頬を指すものだと説かれる。ゆえに、火より生まれし者よ、知れ。わが頬が高く突き出ているがために、人々は我を『ガンダ』と呼ぶのだ。」
विश्वामित्र उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse illustrates a traditional Sanskrit method of explaining names through etymology: a person’s epithet can be justified by a word’s root-meaning (here, ‘gaṇḍa’ as ‘cheek’), linking language, bodily description, and identity.
A character named Gaṇḍa explains to a fire-born interlocutor why he is called ‘Gaṇḍa’: the term denotes the cheek, and his cheek is prominent, so the name fits.