मन्थावल (manthAvala)

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Monier Williams Cologne

English

 मन्थावल m.
  a partic.  animal (prob. the flying fox),  AitBr.
   (cf.   मान्थाल॑).

Macdonell

English

 मन्थावल manthā-vala,  m.
  kind of animal,  🞄fox,  bat (?).

Vedic Reference

English

 Manthāvala is the name of an animal in the Aitareya Brāh-
maṇa, ^1 a sort of snake according to the St. Petersburg
Dictionary. Sāyaṇa^2 understands it to be a kind of animal
which hangs head downwards from the branches of trees, 
meaning,  presumably,  the flying fox.^3 Cf. Mānthāla,  Mān-
thīlava.
1) iii. 26,  3.
2) P. 291 (ed. Aufrecht). Cf. Zimmer, 
Altindisches Leben,  86.
3) This is the probable meaning of
the word according to Böhtlingk, 
Dictionary,  s.v.

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