Lexicon

of Rig Veda

ropaṇākā, ropanaka

The meaning of the word is not reliably known. Dictionary value - bird species, thrush. Keśava, the commentator on the Kauśika-sūtra, is inclined to understand the word to mean a sort of wood. In the book Robert Yelle. Semiotics of Religion: Signs of the Sacred in History it is Gracula religiosa, Hill Myna (or Grackle), Mainate religieux.