the crow
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a crow · crow · a cawing crow · congress of a crow · crows · eye-plucking crow · son of Indra in bird form · son of Śakra · that bird
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The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana (English) · Orations (Greek) · Works and Days (Greek) · Vitae philosophorum (Greek)
*, with the head of the one towards the feet of the other and carry on this congress, it is called the "congress of a crow.
Crows1 mention
Vitae philosophorum (Greek)
He used to say, as we learn from Hecato in his Anecdotes, that it is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers;
in the texts
Birds
The other guide-bird bought from Philocrates, used by Pisthetaerus to try to find the way to Epops, and lost when it flies away in the panic.
To think that I should trust to this crow, which has made me cover more than a thousand furlongs!
And did you not lose your crow, when you fell sprawling on the ground?
In the confusion both the jay and the crow fly away.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
A crow, said to be the son of Indra, that pecked at Sītā at Citrakūṭa and was struck with Brahmā's weapon by Rāma but spared.
"That crow is said to be the son of Indra, the best of birds, a rover of the earth's interior, equal in speed to the wind.
"And a token of recognition from Rāma has been given to me, O foremost of monkey troops:
"Then looking about, you beheld that crow — its sharp talons bloodied — standing right before me.
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
A crow used both as a purity example and as the namesake of an inverted-position congress.
*, with the head of the one towards the feet of the other and carry on this congress, it is called the "congress of a crow.
A bird is clean when it causes a fruit to fall from a tree by pecking at it, though things eaten by crows and other birds are considered unclean.
*, the Indian Cupid), and offer oblations to other Deities, and having caused a pot filled with water to be brought by her friends, she should perform the worship in honour of the crow who eats the offerings which we make to the manes of deceased relations.
Orations
A crow used by the Phrygian man as a source of an omen, later inadvertently causing his injury.
Vitae philosophorum
Birds Antisthenes says it is better to fall in with than flatterers, since crows devour only the dead.
He used to say, as we learn from Hecato in his Anecdotes, that it is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers;
Works and Days
A crow whose cawing presence on an unfinished house is treated as an ill omen.
When you are building a house, do not leave it rough hewn, or a cawing crow may settle on it and croak.