On account of this incident about his birth, he came to be called by the name of Shuka. : Indeed, it was thus that great ascetic, that foremost of Rishis and highest of Yogins, was born from the two sticks.
शुक्रे निर्मथ्यमाने स शुको जज्ञे महातपाः॥ परमर्षिर्महायोगी अरणीगर्भसम्भवः