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कक्कट (kakkaTa)

 
Apte
English
कक्कटः [kakkaṭḥ], A kind of animal
Vāj.24.32.
Apte 1890
English
कक्कटः A kind of animal.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
कक्कट॑ अस्,
m.
 a species of animal (offered at a sacrifice to the goddess Anumati),
VS.
 xxiv, 32
TS.
 v.
Monier Williams 1872
English
कक्कट कक्कट, अस्, m., Ved. a species of
animal, perhaps a kind of bird.
Vedic Reference
English
Kakkaṭa denotes the ‘crab’ in the Yajurveda Saṃhitās, ^1
being a Prākritized form of Karkaṭa, which is common in the
later literature.^2 Roth, ^3 however, takes the word to mean a
bird, and compares Kakara. See also Kakuṭha.
1) Taittirīya Saṃhitā, v. 5, 15, 1
(where Weber has katkaṭa)
Vājasaneyi
Saṃhitā, xxiv. 32.
2) Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 95.
3) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
कक्कट पुंस्त्री कक्क--अटन् । मृगविशेषे स च अश्वमेधे अनु-मतिदेवताकः पशुः । “न्यङ्कुः कक्कटस्तेऽनुमत्यै” यज०२४, ३२ । पेद्वी मृगभेदः न्यङ्कुरपि, कक्कटः सएव, तेत्रयोऽनुमत्यै” वेददी० । स्त्रियां जातित्वात् ङीष् ।