kuRAla · masculine feminine
Kuṇāla name of a bird (the Indian cuckoo) Ja V 214 f. (Kuṇāla-jātaka). Kuṇāla-daha "cuckoo-lake," name of one of the seven great lakes in the Himavant Vism 416. W.B. Bollée, Kuṇāla-Jātaka, PTS, 1970.
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 .
the name of one of the seven great lakes
【陽】 印度的杜鵑鳥。
(masc, masc) Indian cuckoo Indian cuckoo