शयाण्डक (zayANDaka)
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Vedic Reference
EnglishŚayāṇḍaka is the form in the Taittirīya Saṃhitā^1 of the
name of an animal which in the Maitrāyaṇī^2 and Vājasaneyi
Saṃhitās^3 is written as Śayaṇḍaka. Some sort of bird is meant
according to Roth, ^4 but the commentator on the Taittirīya
Saṃhitā equates the word with Kṛkalāsa, ‘chameleon.’
1) v. 5, 14, 1.
2) iii. 14. 14.
3) xxiv. 33.
4) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 95.
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