काकतालीय

A dictionary, Marathi and English

   Coincidence, chance, casualty. 2 Used as a Coincidental, casual, fortuitous. काकतालीयन्याय The law of the crow and the Palmyra-fruit. Said when any occurrence synchronizing with, or immediately following, some other seems, however in truth independent of it, to have been occasioned by it;--as a fruit of the Palmyra falling at the alighting upon it of a crow, may appear to fall in consequence.

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

काक—तालीय  mfn.  mfn. after the manner of the crow and the palm-fruit (as in the fable of the fruit of the palm falling unexpectedly at the moment of the alighting of a crow and killing it), unexpected, accidental, [R. iii, 45, 17] Comm. on [Pāṇ. 5-3, 106] ( cf. [Pat.] and, [Kaiy.])

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काक—तालीय  n.  n. the fable of the crow and the palm-fruit

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Shabda-Sagara

काकतालीय  mfn.  ( -यः-या-यं) Accidental, unexpected, opportune.
    E. काक, and ताली the fruit of the palm: it alludes to a story of the fruit of the palm falling in the way of a crow.

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