Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s11.459

v1.c3.s11.459

Kuṇḍṛṇacī is the name of an animal of unknown character occurring in the lists of victims at the horse sacrifice (Aśvamedha) in the Yajurveda Saṃhitās.¹ The word also occurs in one passage of the Rigveda,² in which a bird would seem to be intended, though Sāyaṇa interprets it as meaning ‘with crooked flight’ (*kuṭila-gatyā*). In his commentary on the Taittirīya Saṃhitā³ he takes the word to denote the house-lizard (*gṛha-godhikā*).