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कुलीकय (kulIkaya)

 
Capeller Eng
English
कुलीक॑य
m.
a
cert.
aquatic animal.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
कुलीक॑य
m.
a kind of aquatic animal,
TS.
v, 5, 13, 1
(कुलीप॑य),
VS.
xxiv, 21 and 35.
Vedic Reference
English
Kulīkaya is the form in the Taittirīya Saṃhitā^1 of the name
of an animal, apparently a kind of fish, as explained by Mahī-
dhara in his commentary, which is called Kulīpaya in the
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, ^2 and Purīkaya in the Atharvaveda, ^3
variants probably due to the faulty tradition of an unfamiliar.
name.
1) v. 5, 13, 1.
2) xxiv. 21. 35.
3) xi. 2, 25. The commentator reads
Pulīkaya, as in the Maitrāyaṇī Saṃ-
hitā, iii. 14, 2. See Whitney, Transla-
tion of the Atharvaveda, 624.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 96.
Capeller
German
कुलीकय
m.
eine best. Wassertier.