bheraṇḍa(ka), bheruṇḍaka (11333)

bheraṇḍa(ka), bheruṇḍaka
Entry 11333, Page 412, Col. 1

(BeraRqa, BeraRqa(ka), BeruRqaka)
bheraṇḍa(ka), bheruṇḍaka¦, m. (Pali bheraṇḍaka, jackal acc. to Jāt. comm. v.276.9; the form bheruṇḍa, cited by Burnouf, Lotus 371, is read bheruṇḍaka in our SP, and has, doubtless by chance, not been noted else- where in BHS), some sort of beast of prey which makes a terrible sound (Mv ii.140.15 °ḍa-bhairava [mss. bhīrava, bhīruva]-ruteṣu; iii.123.9; 264.12) and eats human flesh (SP 83.11; 85.13); Tib. renders variously, on Mvy 4785 spyaṅ (wolf) or ce spyaṅ (jackal, acc. to Das also fox); on SP 83.11 ce spyaṅ, on 85.13 and 86.12 lce spyaṅ (= ce spyaṅ); on LV 306.6 wa (fox, but cf. wa spyaṅ, jackal); the word śṛgāla, jackal, is prob. a different animal, since it is closely associated with our word in LV 306.6; SP 83.11 and 86.12; in LV, where Tib. wa renders our word, śṛgāla is rendered by ce spyaṅ, while in the two SP passages the reverse is the case, wa rendering śṛgāla! Kern on SP renders hyena, a plausible guess. Forms: bheraṇḍa Mv ii.140.15; °ḍaka Mv iii.123.9 (both vss); bheruṇḍaka Mvy 4785; Mv iii.264.12 (prose); SP 83.11; 85.13; 86.12 (all vss); LV 306.6 (prose). In Deśīn. 6.108 bheruṇḍa is defined dīvī (= dvīpin; comm. citrakaḥ); the hyena is ‘spotted’, as well as the leopard.