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शर्कोट (zarkoTa)

 
Capeller Eng
English
शर्को॑ट
m.
a
cert.
snake.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
शर्कोट॑
m.
N.
of a partic. snake, ib. (cf. शार्कोट and कर्कोटक).
Vedic Reference
English
Śarkoṭa is the name of an animal in the Atharvaveda, ^1
either a ‘serpent, as Roth^2 and Zimmer^3 held, or a ‘scorpion,
as Grill, ^4 Henry, ^5 and Bloomfield^6 think.
1) vii. 56, 5.
2) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.,
comparing the later Karkoṭaka.
3) Altindisches Leben, 95.
4) Hundert Lieder, ^2 183.
5) Le livre vii de l' Atharvavéda, 82.
6) Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 554, 555.
Capeller
German
शर्को॑ट
m.
eine best. Schlange.