Lexicon
of Rig Veda
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.
03.12.2020