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Sanskrit
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Etymology
From सृ (sṛ) + मा (mā), a 'swift runner'.
Pronunciation
Noun
सरमा • (sarámā) stem, f
- Indra's dog, said in the Ṛgveda to have gone in search of and recovered cows stolen by the Paṇis.
c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE,
Ṛgveda 10.108.01:
- kím ichántī sarámā prédám ānaḍ dūré hy ádhvā jáguriḥ parācáiḥ
kā́sméhitiḥ kā́ páritakmyāsīt katháṃ rasā́yā ataraḥ páyāṃsi- Seeking what has Saramā arrived here, for far is the road, swallowing up (the traveler) in the distance?
What is your mission to us? What was the final turn (bringing you here)? How did you cross the waters of the Rasā?.
- mother of beasts of prey
Declension
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “सरमा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1182.
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “सरमा”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “सरमा”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016