Jīvaŋ -- jīvaka (m. onom.) name of a bird, a sort of pheasant (or partridge?), which utters a note sounding like jīvaŋ jīva D iii.201; J v.406, 416; vi.276, 538 [Fausböll reads jīvajīvaka in all the Jātaka passages. Speyer AvŚ ii.227 has jīvañjīvaka]. With this cp. the Jain phrase jīvaŋjīveṇa gacchaï jīvaŋjīveṇaŋ ciṭṭhaï, Weber Bhagavatī pp. 289, 290, with doubtful interpretation ("living he goes with life"? or "he goes like the j. bird"?).

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