शार्दूली

Feminine of शार्दूल m (śārdūlá).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɕɑːɾ.duː.liː/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɕɑːɾˈd̪uː.l̪iː/

शार्दूली • (śārdūlī) f (masculine शार्दूल)

1. a tigress
2. the mythical mother of tigers and other beasts of prey
   • c. 500 BCE – 100 BCE, Rāmāyaṇa 3.13:

     अपत्यं तु मृगाः सर्वे मृग्या नरवरोत्तम
     ऋक्षाश्च मृगमन्दायाः सृमराश्चमरास्तथा
     ततस्त्विरावतीं नाम जज्ञे भद्रमदा सुताम्
     तस्यास्त्वैरावतः पुत्रो लोकनाथो महागजः
     हर्याश्च हरयोऽपत्यं वानराश्च तरस्विनः
     गोलाङ्गूलांश्च शार्दूली व्याघ्रांश्चाजनयत् सुतान्
     मातङ्ग्यास्त्वथ मातङ्गा अपत्यं मनुजर्षभ
     दिशागजांश्च काकुत्स्थ श्वेताप्यजनयत् सुतान्
     ततो दुहितरौ राम सुरभिर्द्वे व्यजायत

     apatyaṃ tu mṛgāḥ sarve mṛgyā naravarottama
     ṛkṣāśca mṛgamandāyāḥ sṛmarāścamarāstathā
     tatastvirāvatīṃ nāma jajñe bhadramadā sutām
     tasyāstvairāvataḥ putro lokanātho mahāgajaḥ
     haryāśca harayoʼpatyaṃ vānarāśca tarasvinaḥ
     golāṅgūlāṃśca śārdūlī vyāghrāṃścājanayat sutān
     mātaṅgyāstvatha mātaṅgā apatyaṃ manujarṣabha
     diśāgajāṃśca kākutstha śvetāpyajanayat sutān
     tato duhitarau rāma surabhirdve vyajāyata

     Mṛgī, O prince without a peer,
     Was mother of the herds of deer,
     The bear, the yak, the mountain roe
     Their birth to Mṛgamandā owe;
     And Bhadramadā joyed to be
     Mother of fair Irāvatī,
     Who bore Airāvat, huge of mould,
     Mid warders of the earth enrolled,
     From Harī lordly lions trace,
     With monkeys of the wild, their race.
     From the great dame Śārdūlī styled
     Sprung pards, langurs, and tigers wild.
     Mātangi, Prince, gave birth to all
     Mātangas, elephants strong and tall,
     And Śvetā bore the beasts who stand
     One at each wind, earth's warder band.
     Next Surabhī the Goddess bore
     Two heavenly maids, O Prince, of yore

   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata 1.60:

     प्रजज्ञे त्वथ शार्दूली सिंहान्व्याघ्रांश्च भारत ।

     prajajñe tvatha śārdūlī siṃhānvyāghrāṃśca bhārata.

     And Śārdūlī begot lions and tigers in numbers, and also leopards and all other strong animals, O Bhārata.

• Monier Williams (1899), “शार्दूली”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1067/1.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “śārdūlá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press