sre mong

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སྲེ་མོང
mongoose-like creature, weasel [RY]

yellow weasel, mustela lataica pallas, squirrel [JV]

(med) Weasel (Mustela sp.) (Das 1902).

sre mong ni / rigs gnyis yod / ti lo 'dra yang chung phra mtho gang tsam ser po byi ba lta bu'o // ne'u le ni 'brug pa las 'ong ba khra ba'o / shel sgong las / sre mong sha yis sha las sbyar dug dang // lhog 'dul srin bya'i sha yis gdon la phan // zhes so // (mDzes mtshar mig rgyan, print p 248)

Illustrations : 'Phrin Las 1987 (23_054) sre mong (33_054) sre mong sha dang sma ra. 'Jam-dpal (print p 248) sre mong

Commonly identified with the weasel, Mustela altaica, which is found in mountains of Asia, from Russian Central Asia and Korea to northern India, at elevations up to 3,500 m or more (animaldiversity.org). Jam-dpal describes 2 kinds, a first one being similar but smaller than a polecat (te lo), and a second one named ne'u le, coming from Bhutan. Das (1902) gives ne'u le and dbyi mong under the heading sre mo/sre mong. Ne'u le may be a related mustelid like a ferret-badger. Lepcha and Bhotia peoples in northeast India keep the Burmese ferret-badger in their homes to control insect and rodent pests and is used as a source of food, fur, and medicines by the local people (animaldiversity.org). But ne le and ne'u le are also names for hawks.
Johannes Schmidt (talk) 16:05, 14 February 2024 (EST)