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Sunda

SUNDA. [Source: Dowson's Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology]

Sunda and Upasunda, of the Mahabharata, were two Daityas, sons of Nisunda, for whose destruction the Apsaras Tilottama was sent down from heaven. They quarreled for her, and killed each other.

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