Dear Colleagues,

In Kālidāsa's Raghuvaṃśa 2.13, the word anokaha is used in the sense of a tree. Mallinātha simply paraphrases anokaha with vr̥kṣa. Has anyone seen an explanation of this word as to its constituents and etymology? Best regards,

Madhav M. Deshpande

Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]