Tiger
animal · 5 works · 7 mentions · 10 anchored passages
tiger · the skin of the tiger · the tiger · the tiger that bites on both sides · tiger's nail · tigers · śārdūla
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Predatory animal invoked as a danger to be turned away and physically disabled in the protection charm.
Up have stepped these three:
the tiger is the most distant of all.
Both your eyes and your jaws, O tiger, we crush;
Law in a Free State
Tigers, used as an illustrative example of unconstrained natural strength and lawlessness contrasted with the gains of civil society.
Who would sell his civil liberty for the complete unbridled lawlessness of the tiger?
If a dozen tigers of equal strength, in a wood, would give up fighting one another and would reserve all their fighting power for their prey, it would be an immense economy of force.
My advice to the tiger in the jungle is to kill and subdue his rivals, and to do the best for himself.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The tiger, invoked in simile for its beautiful skin concealing a rapacious animal, illustrating the deceptive exterior of the protecting-duty system.
thus benevolence to workmen is the exterior of the protecting-duty system, as beautiful as the skin of the tiger, which nevertheless covers a rapacious animal.
Slokantara
An animal used as a simile: even maimed, it will not abandon its predatory nature, unlike a base act.
It is like a tiger—*śārdūla* means tiger.
* [Slo_31s-cd] > *A tiger, even with a severed paw, will never eat grass.
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
Named for the 'jump of a tiger' congress and the 'tiger's nail' mark pattern.
This same line, when it is curved, and made on the breast, is called a "tiger's nail.
In the same way can be carried on the congress of a dog, the congress of a goat, the congress of a deer, the forcible mounting of an ass, the congress of a cat, the jump of a tiger, the pressing of an elephant, the rubbing of a boar, and the mounting of a horse.
8. The leaf of a blue lotus.