the pigeon
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
pigeon · kapota · the bird
spoken of as
1 expressionPigeon“kapota”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
May the sent pigeon be auspicious to us;
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
A pigeon appearing in the house is treated as an ill omen (messenger of Nirṛti) requiring expiation and ritual expulsion.
May the sent pigeon be auspicious to us;
With the verse drive off the pigeon, driving it away;
I push you away, I drive you forth, O pigeon, along with the rakṣas;
Iliad
A pigeon tied to the ship's mast as the target of the archery contest, ultimately killed by Meriones' arrow.
he set up a ship's mast, some way off upon the sands, and with a fine string tied a pigeon to it by the foot;
the arrow went clean through the wing and fixed itself in the ground at Meriones' feet, but the bird perched on the ship's mast hanging her head and with all her feathers drooping;
"Whoever," he said, "can hit the pigeon shall have all the axes and take them away with him;