What is the Sanskrit word for bird?

Answer 1

Well, I have, what I feel is, a very accurate conjecture with some solid references. In the book The Religion of Man, by Rabindranath Tagore, published in 1931, he uses this subject as a metaphor for man's spiritual development, making reference to the fact that the Sanskrit term for bird is "Twice-born" remarking upon it's birth both from the egg, and the it's second birth in the realm of the sky. Referencing the Tamilcube.com English to Sanskrit dictionary, the Sanskrit term for twice-born is Dwija. More specifically, a person of the Brahmin caste who has been reborn, in union with Brahma is said to be a "Dvija". So with this triangulated information, I feel I can say confidently that the Sanskrit word for Bird is "Dwija".