Sarama
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'''Saramā''' is the name of a female [[dog]] belonging to [[Indra]] and the other [[Deva (Hinduism)|devas]] in early [[Hinduism]]'s [[Vedic mythology]]. She is mentioned in [[Rigveda]] 10.14.10 as the mother of the four-eyed brindled dogs of [[Yama (Hinduism)|Yama]]. She is said to have gone in search of [[cattle]], [[cattle raid|stolen]] and hidden in the [[Vala (Vedic)|Vala]] by an evil people called {{Unicode|[[Panis|Paṇis]]}}, as described in [[Rigveda]] [[RV 10|10]].108, a part of which she (with the title of '''devashunī''', ie., ''divine female dog'') is also said to be the authoress of. In general, Saramā also came to mean any female dog or bitch. It is interesting to note here that like the early [[Iranian peoples|Iranian]] people, the early [[Indo-Aryans]] also, in some form, respected the dog. Whereas in later Hinduism, the dog became one of the most degraded animal.
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