Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s17.221

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⁵ In Khila, ii. 4, 1, Tārkṣya is represented as a bird (*vāyasa*), also a symbol of the sun. In the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xv. 18, he is mentioned with Ariṣṭanemi, originally an epithet of his (Rv. i. 89, 6; x. 178, 1), as a person, and in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, xiii. 4, 3, 13, he appears as Vaipaśyata (Vaipaścita in Āśvalāyana Śrauta Sūtra, x. 7), king of the birds (*cf.* Eggeling, *Sacred Books of the East*, 44, 369).