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    anyavāpa

    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 145, col. 2.
    anyavāpa Tatpur. m. (-paḥ) (ved.) The Kokila or Indian

    cuckoo (lit.: who sows for others, i. e. who gets eggs which

    are hatched by the crow; comp. anyabhṛt &c. E. anya and vāpa.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    ☞ p. 45, col. 2.
    anya—vāpá m. ‘sowing for others’ i.e. ‘leaving his eggs in the nests of other birds’, the kokila or Indian cuckoo, VS.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 269.
    anyavāpá (anya + vāpa) (Andern säend, d. i. Eier legend) m. Kuckuck VS. 24, 37.

    — Vgl. anyapuṣṭa .

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 67, col. 2.
    anyavāpá m. der indische Kuckuck.

    The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 24.
    Anya-vāpa (‘sowing for others’). — The cuckoo is so called1

    from its habit of depositing its eggs in the nests of other birds [Footnote] 1) Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xxiv. 37; Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, iii. 14, 18.