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⁵⁸¹ Cf. Su.Sū.46.109 (Ḍalhaṇa regards kumbhīra as a name for a group of aquatic animals). P. Rāy and H.N. Gupta (1965): Crocodylus porosus, the gharial crocodile. P.V. Sharma: crocodile. Gulabkunverba: the gangetic garial. P.V. Sharma: crocodile. R.K. Sharma and Bhagwan Dash: idem. See on Crocodylus palustris Lesson, the mugger, or marsh crocodile, Crocodylus porosus Schneider, the estuarine or salt-water crocodile, and Gavialis gangeticus (Gmelin), the gharial or long-snouted crocodile: E. Balfour (1967): I, 838–839, (1968): III, 390–391; J.C. Daniel (1983): 10–16; F. Finn (1929): 266–267; R.E. Hawkins (1986): 151–154; T.S.N. Murthy and R.S. Pillai (1986d); M.A. Smith (1931); G. Watt II, 591–592; WIRM II, 368–369. The fat (vasā) of the kumbhīra is very unwholesome (Ca.Sū.25.39).