kuṇāla (4940)

kuṇāla
Entry 4940, Page 185, Col. 2

(kuRAla, kuRAla)
kuṇāla¦, or kunāla; see also koṇāla; m., (1) (= Pali kuṇāla; not in Pkt. or Skt. in this sense), a kind of bird, in Pali apparently the Indian cuckoo, Skt. kokila: kuṇ° Mvy 4880; LV 40.5; 286.13; 301.14; Av ii.201.2, 4; RP 26.15; Śikṣ 329.6; Gv 100.26; 194.12; kun° LV 162.19--20 (most mss. kuṇ°) and in a passage found only in ms. H but confirmed by Tib. (ku na la; ms. H kunāra), see Crit. App. on LV 11.3; RP 41.9; Divy 406.6 ff.; (2) (in this sense not recorded in Pali or Skt., but AMg. Kuṇāla), n. of a son of King Aśoka, so named because his eyes were like those of the bird acc. to Av ii.201.4 ff. (Kuṇ°) and Divy 406.14 ff.; other occurrences Divy 403.8 ff.; 405.14 (in Divy always Kun°); Kunālāvadāna, colophon to Divy chap. 27, Divy 419.13.

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