chu srin sder mo

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ཆུ་སྲིན་སྡེར་མོ
medicinal herb useful in leprosy [JV]

[[chu srin sder mo animal med [lit crocodile claws na gi yang zer ba'i nya khrab can gyi phyi skogs sen mo lta bu de'i ming ste, by its power rus pa la zhugs pa'i tsa ba sel] [IW]

[[chu srin sder mo animal med [IW]

(med) Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) (Drungtso 1999)

Illustrations : 'Phrin Las 1987 (30_084) chu srin sder mo mchog dman (33_071) chu srin spyin

'Jam-dpal gives chu srin sder mo as synonym for na gi, the pangolin.
Drungtso (1999) identifies it with the Gharial, the fish-eating crocodile of the big river-systems of the North-Indian subcontinent. It is one of the largest crocodilians in the world. Males have a bulbous growth on the end of their snout called a "ghara." Indian gharials are poached for their skin, meat, male gharas, and eggs. Gharials are also threatened indirectly through habitat destruction, and the populations have decreased dramatically since the 1930s (animaldiversity.org).
Johannes Schmidt (talk) 14:58, 23 February 2024 (EST)