मक्षा (makSA)

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Capeller Eng

English

 म॑क्षा f.
  a fly.

Monier Williams Cologne

English

 म॑क्षा f.
  id.,  RV.
   x,  40,  6
 AV.
   ix,  1,  17

 मक्षा [cf.   Lat.
  musca].

Macdonell

English

 मक्षा mákṣā,  f.
  fly (V.).

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Vedic Reference

English

 Makṣā,  Makṣikā,  denote both ‘fly’^1 and ‘bee’^2 in the Rig-
veda and later.
1) Makṣikā,  Rv. i. 162,  9
 Av. xi. 1, 
2
 9,  10
 Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, 
iii. 3,  2.
2) Makṣā,  Rv. x. 40,  6
 Makṣikā, 
i. 119,  9
 Praśna Upaniṣad,  ii. 4,  where
a ‘king bee’ (madhukara-rājan) is re-
ferred to.
Cf. Zimmer,  Altindisches Leben,  97
Hillebrandt. Vedische Mythologie,  1,  240, 
n. 1.

Grassman

German

 mákṣā,  f.,  dasselbe (lat. musca).
-ā mádhu bharata {866, 6} (yuvós āsā́).

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