तार्क्ष्य (tārkṣya) m. N. of a mythical being (originally described as a horse with the epithet अरिष्ट-नेमि (ariṣṭa-nemi) [Ṛg-veda (Title) i, 89, 6; x, 178, 1; Naighaṇṭuka, commented on by Yāska (subtitle) i, 14 ; Kauśika-sūtra (Title) 73 ], later on taken to be a bird [Ṛg-veda (Title) v, 51, interpol.; Āśvalāyana-śrauta-sūtra (Title) x, 7 ] and identified with Garuḍa [Mahābhārata (Title); Harivaṃśa (Title) &c.] or called his elder brother [L.] or father [Bhāgavata-purāṇa (Title) vi, 6, 2 and 21 ; see also -पुत्र (-putra)]; mentioned with Ariṣṭa-nemi, Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā (Title) xv, 18 ; with Ariṣṭa-nemi, Garuḍa, Aruṇa and Āruṇi as offspring of Kaśyapa by Vinatā, Mahābhārata (Title) i, 2548 and 4830; Harivaṃśa (Title) 12468 and 14175 ; called a Yakṣa, Viṣṇu-purāṇa (Title) ii, 10, 13 ; a Muni with the N. Ariṣṭa-nemi, Mahābhārata (Title) iii, 12660 and 12665; xii, 10615; pl. a class of demi-gods grouped with the Gandharvas, Yakṣas, and Cāraṇas, Rāmāyaṇa (Title) i, 16, 9) [ID=84445]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)