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प्लीहाकर्ण (plIhAkarNa)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
प्लीहा-क॑र्ण (for °ह-क्°)
mfn.
suffering from a partic. disease of the ear called प्लीहन्,
VS.
(Mahīdh. )
Vedic Reference
English
Plīhā-karṇa as an epithet of cattle in the Yajurveda
Saṃhitās^1 probably denotes ‘having a spleen-shaped mark
branded on the ear, not as Mahīdhara in his commentary on
the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā^2 takes it, ‘having a disease called
Plīhan in the ear.’
1) Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, iii. 13, 5 (cf. iv. 2, 9)
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xxiv. 24.
2) Loc. cit.