We construct a continuous function L : C 2 → (0, +∞) 2 such that every entire solution of a certain second order partial differential equation has bounded L-index in a direction b = (b1, b2) ∈ C 2 \ {0}. On the other hand, the entire bivariate function F (z1, z2) = cos √ z1z2 is a solution of this equation. The function F has unbounded index in each direction b ∈ C 2 \ {0}. The constructed function L is a full solution of a problem posed by A. A. Kondratyuk's in 2007 about the existence of the function L with specified properties. We also suggest a continuous function L1 : C 2 → (0, +∞) 2 such that the function F has bounded L1-index in every direction b ∈ C n \ {0}.