1. بَكَ
baka m. (also written vaka) a kind of heron or crane, Ardea Nivea (often fig. = a hypocrite, cheat, rogue, the crane being regarded as a bird of great cunning and deceit as well as circumspection), Mn. ; MBh. &c.
The corpus record — Sanskrit
baka
baka m. (also written vaka) a kind of heron or crane, Ardea Nivea (often fig. = a hypocrite, cheat, rogue, the crane being regarded as a bird of great cunning and deceit as well as circumspection), Mn. ; MBh. &c.
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Where it lives
- Chandogya Upanisad 7 · 1.49/10k
What it meant — Monier-Williams
2. بَكَ
of an Asura (said to have assumed the form of a crane and to have been conquered by Kṛṣṇa ), BhP.
3. بَكَ
of a Ṛṣi (with the patr. Dālbhi or Dālbhya ), Kāṭh. ; ChUp. ; MBh.
In the wild
- bako Chandogya Upanisad chup_1,12.1
- bako Chandogya Upanisad chup_1,12.2
- bako Chandogya Upanisad chup_1,12.3
- bako Chandogya Upanisad chup_1,12.4
- baka Chandogya Upanisad chup_1,2.11
- bako Chandogya Upanisad chup_1,2.13
6 of 7 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. baka (vol. 2, scan p. 235; entry #2115).
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