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ticus, though its name denotes a childkiller. The eullaki is 

 therefore a large aquatic animal, which because it lives prin- 

 cipally in water, is called a fish ; and as the crocodile prefers 

 as its place of abode the muddy banks of a river, the name 

 eullaki applies most appropriately to it. 104 



It is a peculiar coincidence that in Telugu an iguana is 

 called udumu, and the lizard is generally called udumupille or 

 young iguana; the Tamil name of the same animal is 

 udumbu. 



The identity is thus clearly established between the Grreek 

 word skolex (as the Greeks had no nearer sound than sh to 

 resemble the palatal c), the Sanskrit words culuki (eullaki, 

 culumpi, and ulupi), and the Dravidian udumbu and udumu. 



On the west coast of India oil is even now obtained 

 from big fish by letting their carcasses lie in the sun and 

 allowing the oil thus to ooze out, which process creates all 

 the while an unbearable stench. With respect to the 

 quantity of oil gained out of a fish like a porpoise and of a 

 crocodile, the superiority rests doubtless with the former, 

 though a well-fed and plump gavial possesses no doubt likewise 

 a considerable amount of oily substance. 105 



The iguana resembles in its shape a crocodile, and both being 

 named in the Dravidian languages and in Sanskrit by the 

 word culumpi alias udumbu, this term applies in the former 

 languages to the smaller and in Sanskrit to the larger animal. 

 The Sanskrit word musali and the Tamil mudalai are also 

 identical in origin, but they differ in so far that mm all 



104 The author of the Sabdaratnavali explains it by Sisimardkrti'niatsya, i.e., 

 a .fish which resembles the porpoise ; and in Hemacandra's Anekartha- 

 sangraha we read eullaki kundikd bhede siswndre kuldntare ; Visvaprakasa and 

 Medinlkara have nearly the same explanation : Culuki {eullaki) sisumdrepi 

 kundibhede kaldntare, i.e., culuki is a pot ; a porpoise (and) a kind of race. 



105 The oil of the crocodile is mentioned in Indian Medical Works, and it is 

 in the list of Dr. Forbes Watson included among the commercial products 

 of India. 



