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Sanskrit
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Etymology
Compound of सर् (sar, “to run”) + अमा (amā).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
सरमा • (sarámā) stem, f
- (Hinduism) Sarama, the female dog of the devas, mother of all wild animals, who helped Indra recover Bṛhaspati's cows, stolen by Paṇis, the followers of Vala
c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE,
Ṛgveda 10.108.1:
- किमि॒च्छन्ती॑ स॒रमा॒ प्रेदमा॑नड्दू॒रे ह्यध्वा॒ जगु॑रिः परा॒चैः।
कास्मेहि॑ति॒: का परि॑तक्म्यासीत्क॒थं र॒साया॑ अतर॒: पयां॑सि॥- kímicchántī sarámā prédámānaḍdūré hyádhvā jáguriḥ parācaíḥ.
kā́sméhiti: kā́ páritakmyāsītkatháṃ rasā́yā atara: 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.
Declension
| Feminine ā-stem declension of सरमा (sarámā)
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Singular
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| Nominative
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सरमा
sarámā
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| Vocative
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सरमे
sárame
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| Accusative
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सरमाम्
sarámām
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| Instrumental
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सरमया / सरमा¹
sarámayā / sarámā¹
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| Dative
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सरमायै
sarámāyai
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| Ablative
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सरमायाः / सरमायै²
sarámāyāḥ / sarámāyai²
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| Genitive
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सरमायाः / सरमायै²
sarámāyāḥ / sarámāyai²
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| Locative
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सरमायाम्
sarámāyām
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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