शारिशाका (zArizAkA)
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Vedic Reference
EnglishŚāriśākā is an utterly obscure expression found in one
passage of the Atharvaveda.^1 Weber^2 thinks it means ‘dung
(śakan) of the Śāri bird’
Grill^3 sees in the word the śārikā,
‘the hooded crow’
Roth^4 suggests the emendation (śāriḥ
(= śāliḥ) śaka iva, ‘like rice in manure’
and Bloomfield^5
emends śāri-śukeva, ‘like starlings and parrots.’
1) iii. 14, 5.
2) Indische Studien, 17, 246.
3) Hundert Lieder, ^2 112.
4) In Whitney, Translation of the
Atharvaveda, 110.
5) Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 351. But
see Lanman's note in Whitney, loc.
cit.
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