śarabhá m. a kind of deer or (in later times) a fabulous animal (supposed to have eight legs and to inhabit the snowy mountains; it is represented as stronger than the lion and the elephant; cf. aṣṭa-pad and mahā-skandhin), [AV.] &c. &c.
a young elephant, [L.]
a camel, [L.]
a grasshopper (= śalabha), [W.]
a locust, [ib.]
a kind of metre, [Col.]
N. of Viṣṇu, [MW.]
of an Upaniṣad (cf. śarabhopaniṣad)
of an Asura, [MBh.]
of two serpent-demons, [ib.]
of various men, [RV.]; [MBh.] &c.
of a son of Śiśu-pāla, [MBh.]
of brother of Śakuni, [ib.]
of a prince of the Aśmakas, [Hcar.]
of a monkey in Rāma's army, [R.]
(pl.) N. of a people, [MBh.] (B. śabara)