Re: What's a Krauncha Bird?
Namasté,
I just came across this sentence in Jan Gonda's The Vision of the Vedic Poets, amidst a discussion of the haṃsa:
"The bird kruńc, like the 'swan,' was credited with the power of separating milk from the water with which it had been mixed."
To me, this ability to unmix water and milk would represent the pure discernment that separates Truth from untruth.
Besides "heron" or "crane," I have also seen the word translated as "curlew."
"What was, what is, what will be: I am That." -from BÄį¹£kalamantra Upaniį¹£ad
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