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The second passage is a perfect picture of the Star Hifi, the noisy or quarrelsome Common Mynas often given to fighting with their own kind. CUCKOOS
The parasitic nature of Cuckoos has long been known in India as we find one named as अन्यवाप in the वाज.संहिता, 24.34. Other common names are परभृत् or परपुष्ट. These are usually applied to the Himalayan Cuckoo and the Koel but the expression que la evidently includes the alcoh group as well:
"धन्यं धिनोति वचनैः श्रवणानुकूलैः अन्यं दुनोति परुषैः परपुष्टजाति:"
f4a1714, 74.8, AICI, 87 In this verse a love-sick person complains principally against the Cuckoo but generalises against the whole tribe including the Hawk-Cuckoos, the Pied Crested-Cuckoo, etc. Whose calls are not welcome to a separated lover. Cuckoos other than the Black Koel cuckold small birds of different kinds, e.g., Babblers, Chats, Pipits, Wagtails, etc., and knowledge of this fact on the part of the ancients is fully reflected in the names given above and in the half verse from ylleprint given below:
"प्रागन्तरिक्षगमनात् स्वमपत्यजातं
spilgt: Prya: 92f7" - 4.72. The Koel of the plains on the other hand victimises the common House-Crow and occasionally the Jungle-Crow, and is therefore called alone. The male bird's loud call of 'The
' has given us names like a chur gey etc., for it and the name Free for the night of the New-moon which is supposed to be as black as the bird itself. Sanskrit foly appears to have been formed on a false analogy with the Prakrit Sary 143 though, independently of the latter, it can stand by itself as "Crow tailed" which, however, is quite colourless and uninteresting. Chirag f43050 (alfatah - the Crow's father's sister) for the female Koel, on the other hand, seems to be an excellent name based upon the bird's parasitism. In India a sister often leaves her little children with a brother for rearing them and this is exactly how the female Cuckoo deals with her supposed brother, the Crow, and hence her nick-name, 'the Crow's aunt'. The Koel shares the names of chat and f90 with the European and the Asiatic Cuckoos which breed in the Himalayas and, very sparingly, on the hills in certain parts of the country. It is therefore difficult to say whether a given reference is to the Cuckoo proper or to the Koel.
371914 in “3R S 4647774'' - V.S., 24.34. would be the Cuckoo if the Samhita was compiled in the North-West, for the Koel is non-existent in the extreme North-West and rare in the Punjab, but if the compilation took place in the 000 it is more probably the Koel. The reason for the dedication of the bird to the deity presiding over the Half-months is apparently
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