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शितिकक्षी (zitikakSI)

 
Vedic Reference
English
Śiti-kakṣī in the Taittirīya Saṃhitā^1 is explained by Sāyaṇa
as a ‘white-breasted’ (pāṇḍarodara) vulture. The word may,
however, well be only an adjective.^2
1) v. 5, 20, 1. Cf. Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xxiv. 4
Av. v. 23, 5. Cf. Zimmer,
Altindisches Leben, 93.