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]

(sman)
1. Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) (Drungtso 1999)
Crocodile (Crocodylus sp) (Paljor 2018)

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

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).
The Mugger crocodile (also marsh or Indian crocodile, Crocodylus palustris) shares similar ecosystems with the Gharials as habitat. It's name goes back to the Hindi word 'magar' and the Sanskrit 'makara' for crocodile.

2. Chinese Pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) (dGa' ba'i rDo rje 1995)

na gi ni/ chu srin sder mo yang zhes bya ba ste la la chu srin dngos kyi sen mor 'dzin pa mi shes pa yin/ rgya nag lho phyogs su ri la gnas pa rwa gsum dang brang la spu can lce ring mjug mar reg cing / nya chu la 'gro ba ltar sa 'og 'gro nus pa nyi 'ong du nyal ste sha sprang sogs bsags tshe 'dab ma bskum nas chur 'jug zhing btab nas za ba'o// rgyud las/ chu srin sder mos rus tshad sel// zhes gsungs/ (mDzes mtshar mig rgyan, print p 260)

Illustrations : Jam-dpal (pdf p 286) na gi. dGa' ba'i rDo rje (1995) ill. 832, 833

'Jam-dpal gives chu srin sder mo as synonym for na gi, the pangolin. dGa' ba'i rDo rje (1995) as well as Yeshi (2017) take also chu srin sder mo as synonymous with na gi and identify it with the pangolin. Several species of pangolins or anteaters are hunted for their meat as food and scales for medicine, like the Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) and the Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla). The latter is prescribed in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia for the drug Manis Squama.
Johannes Schmidt (talk) 14:58, 23 February 2024 (EST)