ककर (kakara)

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Apte

English

ककरः [kakarḥ],  A kind of bird (Ved. )
 Vāj.24.2.

Apte 1890

English

 ककरः A kind of bird (Ved.). 

Monier Williams Cologne

English

 क॑कर m.
  a kind of bird,  VS.
  xxiv,  20
 MaitrS.
  iii,  14,  1.

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Monier Williams 1872

English

 ककर ककर,  अस्,  m.,  Ved. a kind of bird.

Vedic Reference

English

 Kakara occurs in the Yajurveda Saṃhitās^1 as the name of a
victim at the horse sacrifice (Aśvamedha). It probably denotes
some ‘sort of bird, ’ as rendered by the commentator Mahī-
dhara.^2
1) Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā,  iii. 14,  1
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā,  xx. 24.
2) On Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā,  loc. cit.
Cf. Zimmer,  Altindisches Leben,  94.

वाचस्पत्यम्

Sanskrit

 ककर पु०
  कक--अरच् । पक्षिभेदे । “हेमन्ताय ककरांञ्छि-शिराय विककरान्” यजु० २४,  २० । ककरः पक्षिविशेषः

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