कालका (kAlakA)
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EnglishShabdartha Kaustubha
Kannadaकालका
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वैजयन्तीकोषः
SanskritWord: कालका
Root: कालका
Gender: स्त्री
Number: all
अर्थः ⇒ सितः यद् कपोतः पिङ्गबिन्दुकः हरिणः
Meaning(s):
⇒ Black or grey coloured deer with tawny spots
Shloka(s):
3|4|20|1 ► कालिका त्वसिता यद्वा कपोता पिङ्गबिन्दुका। (भूमिकाण्डः/पशुसङ्ग्रहाध्यायः)
Synonym(s):
➠ 3|4|20|1 ⇢ कालका (कालका) (स्त्री) ⇒ Black or grey coloured deer with tawny spots ⇒ सितः यद् कपोतः पिङ्गबिन्दुकः हरिणः
➠ 3|4|20|1 ⇢ कालिका (कालिका) (स्त्री) ⇒ Black or grey coloured deer with tawny spots ⇒ सितः यद् कपोतः पिङ्गबिन्दुकः हरिणः
Related word(s):
Mahabharata
EnglishKālakā, a female Asura. § 445 (Nivātakavacaynddhap.): III, 173, 12203 (mahāsurī, mother of the Kālakeyas). Cf. Kālā.
पुराणम्
Englishकालका / KĀLAKĀ (kālikā). One of the daughters of dakṣa. kaśyapa married her. mahābhārata, Vana Parva, Chapter 183 states that kālakeya and Narakāsura were born to kālakā by kaśyapa. (vālmīki rāmāyaṇa, araṇya Kāṇḍa, Chapter 14). In mahābhārata araṇya Parva, Chapter 174 we find that kālakā once received from brahmā, a boon that her sons would never be killed.
Vedic Reference
EnglishKālakā is the name of one of the victims at the horse
sacrifice (Aśvamedha) in the Yajurveda Saṃhitās, ^1 variously
identified with a bird^2 or a chameleon.^3
1) Taittirīya Saṃhitā, v. 5, 15, 1
Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, iii. 14, 16
Vāja-
saneyi Saṃhitā, xxiv. 35.
2) Mahīdhara on Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā,
loc. cit.
3) Sāyaṇa on Taittirīya Saṃhitā, loc.
cit. Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben,
99.
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