कशीका (kazIkA)

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Capeller Eng

English

 कशीका॑ f.
  a weasel.

Monier Williams Cologne

English

 कशीका॑ f.
  (=  नकुली) a weasel (Sāy. ),  RV.
   i,  126,  6 (cf.   क॑श,  कषीका,  and √ कष्.)

Monier Williams 1872

English

 कशीका कशीका,  f.,  Ved. a weasel.

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Vedic Reference

English

 Kaśīkā is name of an animal mentioned once in the
Rigveda, ^1 and interpreted as ‘weasel’ by the commentator
Sāyaṇa. Fick^2 suggests that the meaning is ‘pole-cat.’
Geldner^3 takes it as ‘female ichneumon.’
1) i. 126,  5.
2) Bezzenberger,  Beiträge,  3,  165
Schrader,  Prehistoric Antiquities,  247.
Cf. Zimmer,  Altindisches Leben,  84
Hopkins,  Journal of the American Oriental
Society,  17,  57.
3) Rigveda,  Glossar,  44.

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Sanskrit

 कशीका स्त्री कश + बा० ईकन् । सूतवत्सायांनकुल्याम् । “आगधिता परिगधिता या कशीकेव जङ्गाहे”ऋ० १,  १२६,  ६ । “कशीका सूतवत्सा नकुली सा यथापत्या सह चिरं क्रीडति न कदाचिदपि विमुञ्चति” भा०

Capeller

German

 कशीका॑ f.
  Wiesel.

Grassman

German

 kaśīkā́,  f.,  Wiesel [auch kaśa,  ein bestimmtes kleines Thier,  kaṣīkā,  ein bestimmter kleiner Vogel],  wol von kaś = kaṣ,  kratzen,  schädigen.
-ā́ {126, 6}.

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