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विदीगय (vidIgaya)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
विदीगय vidIgaya
m.
species of gallinaceous bird
Monier Williams Cologne
English
विदीग॑य
m.
a species of gallinaceous bird,
TS.
TBr.
(= श्वेत-बक, Sch.)
Vedic Reference
English
Vidīgaya is the name of an animal in the Taittirīya Saṃ-
hitā^1 and the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa.^2 The commentary on the
former takes it as a kind of cock (kukkuṭa-viśeṣa), that on the
latter as a white heron (śveta-baka).
1) v. 6, 22, 1.
2) iii. 9, 9, 3
Āpastamba Śrauta Sūtra, xx. 22, 13.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 94.