The Sanskrit term Kācākṣa can be transliterated into English as Kacaksa or Kacaksha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Kachaksha.

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: archive.org: Sushruta samhita, Volume I

Kācākṣa (काचाक्ष)—Sanskrit word for a bird (lit: “glass-eyed”), perhaps “Painted Stork” (Mycteria leucocephala) (cf. piṃgalākṣa, citrīta mahābaka, Marathi: citrabalāka, raṃgīta karakocā, cāmaḍhoka). This animal is from the group called Plava (‘those which float’ or ‘those move about in large flocks’). Plava itself is a sub-group of the group of animals known as Ānupa (those that frequent marshy places).

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Kācākṣa (काचाक्ष).—Name of an aquatic bird (baka).

Derivable forms: kācākṣaḥ (काचाक्षः).

Kācākṣa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kāca and akṣa (अक्ष).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Kācākṣa (काचाक्ष).—adj., Mahāvyutpatti 8836, lit. glass-eyed; Tibetan śel mig, glass-eye, according to [Tibetan-English Dictionary] used for spectacles. Does it orig. mean having a glass eye, literally? Or glassy-eyed, perhaps = staring-eyed (so Chin.)? Occurs in a list of monstrous or deformed characteristics; followed by skandhākṣa, q.v.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kācākṣa (काचाक्ष):—[from kāca] m. ‘glass-eyed’, Name of an aquatic bird, [Suśruta i, 205, 14.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Kacaksha in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Aksha, Kaca.

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