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marka- in the sense ‘ape', and this is in keeping with the known tendency of the language of the Bhagavata towards archaic and late usages and arbitrary innovations
Now besides sarkóta- and karkota-, the word bakoța-'a kind of crane' also has attracted attention in the present context'. It immediately invites comparison with baka-. Here there seems no escape from assuming a suffixal element ota- in bakota-. But preliminary to a diseussion of the exact meaning and formation of bakota-, we may note its several occurrences from literature, general as well as lexicographical.
2. Occurrences of bakota1. From Purusottamadeva's Trikāņdaśesa (a supplement to the Amarakośa) dated before 11502 : dirghajargho nišaitaḥ syād bakotaḥ śuklavāyasaḥ (4,23). These are synonyms of bakaḥ.
2. Narahari's Rājanighantu (alias Nighaṇturāja, Abhidhānacüdāmaņi) (1235-50) at 19,100 : vakaḥ kariko vakotas ca.
3. Viśvanātha's Kośakalpataru" (before 1649) has similarly mentioned bakotakaḥ at 4606.
4. Hemacandra's Trişaştiśalākāpurusa-caritra. (12th cent). at 6,8, 147 :
purān nirgatya Namuciḥ kapatāt kratuvātake abhavad dikşitaḥ pāpo dustádhyāyi bakoțavat
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Debrunner (ibid, 63) refers to Brugmann's view of connecting marka- and markata-. Mayrhofer, ibid, s.v. bakotah, bakaḥ. Keith, A.B., A History of Sanskrit Literature. (1953 reprint), 414 C.n. 1. Edited, Banaras, 1975. See Keith, ibid, 512. Pw, gives the reference as 19, 97. Edited by Patkar. M. M. and Krishnamurthy Sarma K.V., 1957. The Jain-Dharma-Prasärak-Sabha edition, V.S. 1961 (1905 A.D.)
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