हलिक्ष्ण (halikSNa)
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Vedic Reference
EnglishHalikṣṇa^1 or Halīkṣṇa^2 is mentioned as one of the victims at
the Aśvamedha (‘horse sacrifice’) in the Yajurveda Saṃhitās.
The commentator Mahīdhara^3 thinks that it is a kind of lion,
Sāyaṇa^4 that a green Caṭaka bird or a lion (tṛṇa-hiṃsa)^5 is
meant. In the Atharvaveda^6 Halīkṣṇa seems to be some par-
ticular intestine, but Weber^7 thinks it may mean ‘gall.’
1) Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, iii. 14, 12
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xxiv. 31.
2) Taittirīya Saṃhitā, v. 5, 12, 1
7, 23, 1.
3) On Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, loc. cit.
4) On Taittirīya Saṃhitā, loc. cit.
5) Tṛṇa-siṃha is not much more in-
telligible.
6) ii. 33, 3.
7) Indische Studien, 13, 206.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 79.
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