kāpotaka (4702)

kāpotaka
Entry 4702, Page 176, Col. 2

(kApotaka, kApotaka)
kāpotaka¦, m., acc. to Tib. (phug ron) = Skt. kapo- ta(ka), pigeon: LV 248.20 (prose) sārasikāpotaka-saṃdaṃ- śikotsṛṣṭasaṃprakṣālakaiḥ (of a certain type of ascetics, or their practices, in a list of such types). The ā is strange, and I am not sure that we should not divide sārasikā- potaka, the young of female cranes; but Tib. is very clear. (AMg. kāvoya, a type of ascetics, and kāvoyā, ‘taking food with great care, like pigeons,’ Ratnach., seem not to be relevant here.) Foucaux: gui mangent, après l'avoir lavé, ce qui, mordu par les grues et les pigeons, en a été refeté; so Tib