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ऋक्षाका (RkSAkA)

 
Vedic Reference
English
Ṛkṣākā is a word occurring once in an obscure passage of the
Atharvaveda.^1 The sense is quite unknown. Weber^2 thinks
it refers to the ‘milky way, but his view rests on no evidence.
Whitney^3 despairs of the passage.
1) xviii. 2, 31.
2) Festgruss an Roth, 138, n. 2
Berlin
Catalogue, 2, 59, 11.
Proccedings of the
Berlin Academy, 1895, 856.
3) Translation of the Atharvaveda, 840.