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saramā

sarámā f. ‘the fleet one’, N. of a female dog belonging to Indra and the gods (represented in [RV. x, 14, 10] as the mother of the four-eyed brindled dogs of Yama [cf. [IW. 470]], and called in [MBh. i, 671] deva-śunī; in the [RV.] said to have gone in search of and recovered the cows stolen by the Paṇis; elsewhere regarded as the mother of beasts of prey Saramā Deva-śunī is also said to be the authoress of part of [RV. x, 108]), [RV.]; [PārGṛ.]; [MBh.] &c.

a female dog in general, bitch, [L.]

N. of a Rākṣasī, [R.]

of a daughter of the Gandharva king Śailūṣa and wife of Vibhīṣaṇa, [ib.]

of a wife of Kaśyapa, [VahniP.]

See p. 1182, col. 1.