पुरीकय (purIkaya)
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Vedic Reference
EnglishPurīkaya is the name of a water animal in the Atharvaveda, ^1
being clearly a variant of the name that appears as Pulīkaya in
the Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, ^2 and as Kulīpaya in the Vājasaneyi
Saṃhitā, ^3 and as Kulīkaya in the Taittirī, Brāhmaṇa.^4 What
animal is meant is quite unknown.
1) xi. 2, 25.
2) iii. 14, 2. Pulīkā, ibid., 5, is a
variant of Kulīkā.
3) xxiv. 21. 35.
4) v. 5, 13, 1.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 96
Bloomfield, Zeitschrift der Deutschen
Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 48, 557
Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 621.
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