रोपणाका (ropaNAkA)

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Monier Williams Cologne

English

 रोपणा॑का f.
  a kind of bird,  RV.
  
 AV.
   (Sāy.  ‘a thrush’ =
  शारिका).

Monier Williams 1872

English

 रोपणाका रोपणाका,  f.,  Ved. a kind of
bird,  (Sāy.) a thrush (= शारिका).

Macdonell

English

 रोपणाका ropaṇā́kā,  f.
  kind of bird (V.).

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Benfey

English

 रोपणाका रोपणाका,  f.
  A bird,  Tur-
dus salica,  Chr. 289,  12 = Rigv. i. 50,  12.

Vedic Reference

English

 Ropaṇākā is the name of a bird mentioned in the Rigveda^1
and the Atharvaveda.^2 The ‘thrush’ seems to be meant
^3 but
Keśava,  the commentator on the Kauśika Sūtra, ^4 is inclined to
understand the word to mean a sort of wood.
1) i. 50,  12.
2) i. 22,  4. Cf. Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, 
iii. 7,  6,  22.
3) Śārikā,  Sāyaṇa on Rv.,  loc. cit. On
Av. i. 22,  4,  he explains it as kāṣṭha-
śuka,  perhaps a kind of parrot.
4) xxvi. 20.
Cf. Zimmer,  Altindisches Leben,  92
Bloomfield,  Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 
266
 Caland,  Altindisches Zauberritual, 
76,  n. 13
 Whitney,  Translation of the
Atharvaveda,  23.

Grassman

German

 ropaṇā́kā,  f.,  ein Vogel,  Drossel (Sāy.).
-āsu {50, 12} neben śúkeṣu.

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