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कट्कार (kaTkAra)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
kaṭkāra, m. (so also Mironov
vv.ll. in the two edd. kadgara, kaṭkara, kaṅkara), some kind of bird: Mvy 〔4894〕, acc. to Tib. (one rendering) and Chin. = the prec. item, krakara, 〔4893〕, which in Skt. means a kind of partridge
cf. also Pali kakkara, said to mean jungle-cock
Tib. also bya baṅ, which acc. to Jä. means night-hawk, goat-sucker
or bat.