विककर (vikakara)

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English

 वि॑—ककर (वि॑-),  m.
  a kind of bird,  VS.
  (cf.   -ककर).

Vedic Reference

English

 Vi-kakara is the name of some bird,  a victim at the Aśva-
medha (‘horse sacrifice’) according to the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā.^1
1) xxiv. 20. Cf. Zimmer,  Altindisches
Leben,  94
 in Āpastamba Śrauta Sūtra, 
xx. 14,  5,  vikira (with variants vikikira, 
vikakara) is read.

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