indragopa (3153)

indragopa
Entry 3153, Page 114, Col. 2

(indragopa, indragopa)
indragopa¦, or °paka, in comp. with śiras or śīrṣa(n), redheaded, said of (miraculous) elephants: LV 55.3--4 (prose) indragopaka-śirāḥ, n. sg., of the Bodhisattva in the form of a small elephant, about to enter his mother's womb (in vs line 7 replaced by suraktaśīrṣaḥ); Mv iii.411.4 (prose) indragopa-śīrṣam, of another magically created [Page115-a+ 71] elephant. The words °pa and °paka denote a red insect in Skt. and Pali; acc. to BR the cochineal insect.

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