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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[File:Thomas-de-Kent-Bnf-fr24364-fol54v-dent tyrant.jpg|thumb|300px|The Macedonians attacked by the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;dent-tyrant&amp;#039;&amp;#039; or Odontotyrrannus.&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;{{right|{{small|—14th century, ms. of [[Thomas de Kent]]&amp;#039;s romance.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Bibliothèque nationale fr. 24364}}&amp;lt;ref name=cary&amp;gt;{{cite book|last=Cary |first=George |title=The Medieval Alexander|publisher=University of Cambridge Press |year=1956 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCg9AAAAIAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA35 |pages=35–36}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[File:Thomas-de-Kent-Bnf-fr24364-fol54v-dent tyrant.jpg|thumb|300px|The Macedonians attacked by the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;dent-tyrant&amp;#039;&amp;#039; or Odontotyrrannus.&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;{{right|{{small|—14th century, ms. of [[Thomas de Kent]]&amp;#039;s romance.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Bibliothèque nationale fr. 24364}}&amp;lt;ref name=cary&amp;gt;{{cite book|last=Cary |first=George |title=The Medieval Alexander|publisher=University of Cambridge Press |year=1956 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCg9AAAAIAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA35 |pages=35–36}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Odontotyrannos&#039;&#039;&#039; ({{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;lang-gr&lt;/del&gt;|όδοντοτύραννος}}), also &#039;&#039;&#039;odontotyrannus&#039;&#039;&#039; or &#039;&#039;&#039;dentityrannus&#039;&#039;&#039;{{efn|Also &#039;&#039;dentes tirannus&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;dentestyrannus&#039;&#039;}} (&quot;tooth-tyrant&quot;) is a mythical three-horned beast said to have attacked [[Alexander the Great]] and his men at their camp in [[India]], according to the apocryphal &#039;&#039;[[Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem|Letter from Alexander to Aristotle]]&#039;&#039; and other [[medieval]] romantic retellings of Alexandrian legend.&amp;lt;ref name=harf-lancner/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Odontotyrannos&#039;&#039;&#039; ({{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;langx|el&lt;/ins&gt;|όδοντοτύραννος}}), also &#039;&#039;&#039;odontotyrannus&#039;&#039;&#039; or &#039;&#039;&#039;dentityrannus&#039;&#039;&#039;{{efn|Also &#039;&#039;dentes tirannus&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;dentestyrannus&#039;&#039;}} (&quot;tooth-tyrant&quot;) is a mythical three-horned beast said to have attacked [[Alexander the Great]] and his men at their camp in [[India]], according to the apocryphal &#039;&#039;[[Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem|Letter from Alexander to Aristotle]]&#039;&#039; and other [[medieval]] romantic retellings of Alexandrian legend.&amp;lt;ref name=harf-lancner/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Descriptions==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Descriptions==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;According to the Latin &#039;&#039;Letter from Alexander&#039;&#039;, the creature had a black, horse-like head with three [[Horn (anatomy)|horns]] protruding from its forehead, and exceeded the size of an elephant. It was undeterred by the sight of fire, killing twenty-six{{efn|Or thirty-six, in some variants of the legend.}} Macedonians and incapacitating fifty-two before being put down by thrusts from hunting spears. The local Indians reportedly called the beast &quot;tooth-tyrant&quot;{{sfnp|Stoneman|2012|p=9}} (&#039;&#039;dentityrranus&#039;&#039; or &#039;&#039;odontatyrannus&#039;&#039;).{{Refn|group=&quot;lower-alpha&quot;|Some manuscripts and Kübler&#039;s edition read &quot;&#039;&#039;odontatyrannum&#039;&#039;&quot; with an &quot;a&quot;.{{sfnp|Rypins|1924|p=88 n2}}&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;gunderson&quot; /&amp;gt;}}{{sfnp|Orchard|2003|pp=126–7}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;According to the Latin &#039;&#039;Letter from Alexander&#039;&#039;, the creature had a black, &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;horse&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]]&lt;/ins&gt;-like head with three [[Horn (anatomy)|horns]] protruding from its forehead, and exceeded the size of an elephant. It was undeterred by the sight of fire, killing twenty-six{{efn|Or thirty-six, in some variants of the legend.}} Macedonians and incapacitating fifty-two before being put down by thrusts from hunting spears. The local Indians reportedly called the beast &quot;tooth-tyrant&quot;{{sfnp|Stoneman|2012|p=9}} (&#039;&#039;dentityrranus&#039;&#039; or &#039;&#039;odontatyrannus&#039;&#039;).{{Refn|group=&quot;lower-alpha&quot;|Some manuscripts and Kübler&#039;s edition read &quot;&#039;&#039;odontatyrannum&#039;&#039;&quot; with an &quot;a&quot;.{{sfnp|Rypins|1924|p=88 n2}}&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;gunderson&quot; /&amp;gt;}}{{sfnp|Orchard|2003|pp=126–7}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Julius Valerius Alexander Polemius&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;|Valerius&lt;/del&gt;]]&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039; biography of Alexander{{efn|&lt;/del&gt;&#039;&#039;Res gestae Alexandri Macedonis&#039;&#039;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;.}}, dated to the beginning of the 4th century&lt;/del&gt;, spells the beast&#039;s name as &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/del&gt;&#039;&#039;odontotyrannus&#039;&#039;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&quot; &lt;/del&gt;and states that the strength of 300 men was required to drag its body out of the river.{{efn|Latin text reads:&quot;.. vix trecentorum hominum manus nisu extractus de flumine&quot;}}{{sfnp|Skeat|1886|pp=221, 309n}}&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;gunderson&quot; /&amp;gt; In the Syriac version of [[Pseudo-Callisthenes]], it is the Mashḳělath or Mashklet ({{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;lang-&lt;/del&gt;syr|ܡܫܩܠܬ}}&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{harvnb|Budge|1896|p=150, n1}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;A fourth-century Latin translation of the &#039;&#039;[[Alexander Romance]]&#039;&#039; by &lt;/ins&gt;[[Julius Valerius Alexander Polemius]]&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;, known as the &lt;/ins&gt;&#039;&#039;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;Res gestae Alexandri Macedonis&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]]&lt;/ins&gt;&#039;&#039;, spells the beast&#039;s name as &#039;&#039;odontotyrannus&#039;&#039; and states that the strength of 300 men was required to drag its body out of the river.{{efn|Latin text reads:&quot;.. vix trecentorum hominum manus nisu extractus de flumine&quot;}}{{sfnp|Skeat|1886|pp=221, 309n}}&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;gunderson&quot; /&amp;gt; In the Syriac version of [[Pseudo-Callisthenes]], it is the Mashḳělath or Mashklet ({{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;langx|&lt;/ins&gt;syr|ܡܫܩܠܬ}}&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{harvnb|Budge|1896|p=150, n1}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;perkins-woolsey&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;) which causes 26 casualties among the Macedons and requires 300 men to tug out of a ditch,{{sfnp|Budge|1889|pp=98}} and in the Armenian version 1,300 were needed for the job.{{efn|In the Armenian, the beast is called a &amp;quot;unicorn&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;one horned beast&amp;quot; (Wolohojian tr.)}}&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;wolohojian&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;pritchard&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;perkins-woolsey&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;) which causes 26 casualties among the Macedons and requires 300 men to tug out of a ditch,{{sfnp|Budge|1889|pp=98}} and in the Armenian version 1,300 were needed for the job.{{efn|In the Armenian, the beast is called a &amp;quot;unicorn&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;one horned beast&amp;quot; (Wolohojian tr.)}}&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;wolohojian&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;pritchard&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Zoological identifications==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Zoological identifications==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Many scholars have identified various large beasts in the animal kingdom as to its identity. [[E. A. Wallis Budge|Budge]] suggested it may be a [[crocodilian]] native to the [[Ganges]], and hinted the Syriac name might be a corruption of the [[Makara (Hindu mythology)|makara]], a composite creature in Hindu mythology.{{sfnp|Budge|1889|pp=98}} It may also be based on [[Ctesias]]&#039;s description of the giant fanged [[Indus worm]].{{sfnp|Stoneman|2012|p=xxiii}} The makara theory and Ctesia&#039;s influence is also supported by Gunderson.{{sfnp|Gunderson|1980|pp=103ff}}&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;pritchard&quot; /&amp;gt; Others proposed a [[rhinoceros]], though conceded it may just be an [[legendary creature|imaginary creature]].&amp;lt;ref name=rookmaaker&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pdf_files/132/1327191137.pdf |title=Source Book of the Rhinoceros |publisher=Rhino Resource Center |author=Dr Kees Rookmaaker |access-date=2015-09-13}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Many scholars have identified various large beasts in the animal kingdom as to its identity. [[E. A. Wallis Budge|Budge]] suggested it may be a [[crocodilian]] native to the [[Ganges]], and hinted the Syriac name might be a corruption of the [[Makara (Hindu mythology)|makara]], a composite creature in Hindu mythology.{{sfnp|Budge|1889|pp=98}} It may also be based on [[Ctesias]]&#039;s description of the giant fanged [[Indus worm]].{{sfnp|Stoneman|2012|p=xxiii}} The makara theory and Ctesia&#039;s influence is also supported by Gunderson.{{sfnp|Gunderson|1980|pp=103ff}}&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;pritchard&quot; /&amp;gt; Others proposed a [[rhinoceros]], though conceded it may just be an [[legendary creature|imaginary creature]].&amp;lt;ref name=rookmaaker&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pdf_files/132/1327191137.pdf |title=Source Book of the Rhinoceros |publisher=Rhino Resource Center |author=Dr Kees Rookmaaker |access-date=2015-09-13 &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221018111515/http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pdf_files/132/1327191137.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2022-10-18&lt;/ins&gt;}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Reconstructed Sanskrit name==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Reconstructed Sanskrit name==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*{{cite book|editor-last=Budge |editor-first=E. A. Wallis |title=The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great, being a series of translation of the Ethiopic histories |publisher=Clay  |year=1896|pages=149–150}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*{{cite book|editor-last=Budge |editor-first=E. A. Wallis |title=The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great, being a series of translation of the Ethiopic histories |publisher=Clay  |year=1896|pages=149–150}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*{{citation|last=Goossens |first=Roger |title=L&amp;#039;όδοντοτύραννος, animal de l&amp;#039;Inde |journal=Byzantion  |volume=IV (1927–1928) |year=1929 |pages= 29–52}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*{{citation|last=Goossens |first=Roger |title=L&amp;#039;όδοντοτύραννος, animal de l&amp;#039;Inde |journal=Byzantion  |volume=IV (1927–1928) |year=1929 |pages= 29–52}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*{{cite book|editor-last=Orchard |editor-first=Andy (tr.)|editor-link=Andy Orchard |&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;title&lt;/del&gt;=Letter of Alexander to Aristotle |&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;work&lt;/del&gt;=Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript |publisher=University of Toronto Press |year=2003 |isbn=9780802085832 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hU8DdkwXbDEC&amp;amp;pg=PA239}}&amp;lt;!--Unauthorized copy: http://members.shaw.ca/sylviavolk/Beowulf2.htm --&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*{{cite book|editor-last=Orchard |editor-first=Andy (tr.)|editor-link=Andy Orchard |&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;chapter&lt;/ins&gt;=Letter of Alexander to Aristotle |&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;title&lt;/ins&gt;=Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript |publisher=University of Toronto Press |year=2003 |isbn=9780802085832 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hU8DdkwXbDEC&amp;amp;pg=PA239}}&amp;lt;!--Unauthorized copy: http://members.shaw.ca/sylviavolk/Beowulf2.htm --&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*{{cite book|editor-last=Rypins |editor-first=Stanley |&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;title&lt;/del&gt;=Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle |&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;work&lt;/del&gt;=Three Old English Prose Texts in MS. Cotton Vitellius A xv |series=Early English Text Society |publisher=Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press |year=1924 |url=https://archive.org/stream/publicationsorig161earluoft#page/n9/mode/2up |pages=22, 88 and n2, 86 n10}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*{{cite book|editor-last=Rypins |editor-first=Stanley |&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;chapter&lt;/ins&gt;=Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle |&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;title&lt;/ins&gt;=Three Old English Prose Texts in MS. Cotton Vitellius A xv |series=Early English Text Society |publisher=Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press |year=1924 |url=https://archive.org/stream/publicationsorig161earluoft#page/n9/mode/2up |pages=22, 88 and n2, 86 n10}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*{{cite book|editor-last=Skeat |editor-first=Walter William|editor-link=Walter William Skeat |title=The Wars of Alexander: An Alliterative Romance |series=Early English Text Society |publisher=N. Trübner |year=1886 |url=https://archive.org/details/warsalexanderan00skeagoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/warsalexanderan00skeagoog/page/n342 309]}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*{{cite book|editor-last=Skeat |editor-first=Walter William|editor-link=Walter William Skeat |title=The Wars of Alexander: An Alliterative Romance |series=Early English Text Society |publisher=N. Trübner |year=1886 |url=https://archive.org/details/warsalexanderan00skeagoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/warsalexanderan00skeagoog/page/n342 309]}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*{{citation|editor-last=Stoneman |editor-first=Richard (tr.) |title=The Legends of Alexander the Great |publisher=I.B.Tauris |year=2012 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W8gMKhTO5ZAC |isbn=978-1848857858}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*{{citation|editor-last=Stoneman |editor-first=Richard (tr.) |title=The Legends of Alexander the Great |publisher=I.B.Tauris |year=2012 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W8gMKhTO5ZAC |isbn=978-1848857858}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Greek legendary creatures]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Greek legendary creatures]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Mythological &lt;/del&gt;bovines]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Legendary &lt;/ins&gt;bovines]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Mythological caprids]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Mythological caprids]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[Category:Mythological deer]]&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-added&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Mythological felines]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Mythological felines]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Horses in mythology&lt;/del&gt;]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Legendary horses&lt;/ins&gt;]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Mythological hybrids]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Mythological hybrids]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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[[File:Thomas-de-Kent-Bnf-fr24364-fol54v-dent tyrant.jpg|thumb|300px|The Macedonians attacked by the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;dent-tyrant&amp;#039;&amp;#039; or Odontotyrrannus.&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;{{right|{{small|—14th century, ms. of [[Thomas de Kent]]&amp;#039;s romance.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Bibliothèque nationale fr. 24364}}&amp;lt;ref name=cary&amp;gt;{{cite book|last=Cary |first=George |title=The Medieval Alexander|publisher=University of Cambridge Press |year=1956 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCg9AAAAIAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA35 |pages=35–36}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Odontotyrannos&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; ({{lang-gr|όδοντοτύραννος}}), also &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;odontotyrannus&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; or &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;dentityrannus&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;{{efn|Also &amp;#039;&amp;#039;dentes tirannus&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;dentestyrannus&amp;#039;&amp;#039;}} (&amp;quot;tooth-tyrant&amp;quot;) is a mythical three-horned beast said to have attacked [[Alexander the Great]] and his men at their camp in [[India]], according to the apocryphal &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem|Letter from Alexander to Aristotle]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; and other [[medieval]] romantic retellings of Alexandrian legend.&amp;lt;ref name=harf-lancner/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Descriptions==&lt;br /&gt;
According to the Latin &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Letter from Alexander&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, the creature had a black, horse-like head with three [[Horn (anatomy)|horns]] protruding from its forehead, and exceeded the size of an elephant. It was undeterred by the sight of fire, killing twenty-six{{efn|Or thirty-six, in some variants of the legend.}} Macedonians and incapacitating fifty-two before being put down by thrusts from hunting spears. The local Indians reportedly called the beast &amp;quot;tooth-tyrant&amp;quot;{{sfnp|Stoneman|2012|p=9}} (&amp;#039;&amp;#039;dentityrranus&amp;#039;&amp;#039; or &amp;#039;&amp;#039;odontatyrannus&amp;#039;&amp;#039;).{{Refn|group=&amp;quot;lower-alpha&amp;quot;|Some manuscripts and Kübler&amp;#039;s edition read &amp;quot;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;odontatyrannum&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;quot; with an &amp;quot;a&amp;quot;.{{sfnp|Rypins|1924|p=88 n2}}&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;gunderson&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;}}{{sfnp|Orchard|2003|pp=126–7}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Julius Valerius Alexander Polemius|Valerius]]&amp;#039; biography of Alexander{{efn|&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Res gestae Alexandri Macedonis&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.}}, dated to the beginning of the 4th century, spells the beast&amp;#039;s name as &amp;quot;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;odontotyrannus&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;quot; and states that the strength of 300 men was required to drag its body out of the river.{{efn|Latin text reads:&amp;quot;.. vix trecentorum hominum manus nisu extractus de flumine&amp;quot;}}{{sfnp|Skeat|1886|pp=221, 309n}}&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;gunderson&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; In the Syriac version of [[Pseudo-Callisthenes]], it is the Mashḳělath or Mashklet ({{lang-syr|ܡܫܩܠܬ}}&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{harvnb|Budge|1896|p=150, n1}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;perkins-woolsey&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;) which causes 26 casualties among the Macedons and requires 300 men to tug out of a ditch,{{sfnp|Budge|1889|pp=98}} and in the Armenian version 1,300 were needed for the job.{{efn|In the Armenian, the beast is called a &amp;quot;unicorn&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;one horned beast&amp;quot; (Wolohojian tr.)}}&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;wolohojian&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;pritchard&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In the Ethiopic version, it is an elephant-sized beast with tusks that attacks; this creature is unnamed but corresponds to the odontotyrannus. When it is eviscerated, the Macedonians discover among its stomach contents [[scorpion]]s as well as large fish the size of an ox.{{sfnp|Budge|1896|pp=149–150}} In the 5th-century Greek writings of [[Palladius of Galatia|Palladius]]{{efn|&amp;#039;&amp;#039;On the Life of the Brahmans&amp;#039;&amp;#039;; one abridged recension is referred to as &amp;quot;Commonitorium Palladii de Bragmanis&amp;quot; ({{Harvnb|Stoneman|2012|pp=xxv; 113n}}).}} and the 9th-century writings of [[George Hamartolos]], the odontotyrannus (όδοντοτύραννος) is an amphibious carnivore that can devour an elephant.{{sfnp|Stoneman|2012|pp=38, 31–32}}&lt;br /&gt;
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In &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Roman d&amp;#039;Alexandre|Li romans d&amp;#039;Alixandre]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; of [[Alexandre de Bernay]], the beast is named &amp;#039;&amp;#039;tirant&amp;#039;&amp;#039;,&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;perkins-woolsey&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; and in [[Thomas de Kent]]&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Roman de toute chevalerie&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, the Old French name is &amp;#039;&amp;#039;dent-tyrant&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;cary&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; In the Middle English &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[King Alisaunder]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, the name is given as &amp;quot;deutyrauns&amp;quot;.{{efn|{{harvnb|Skeat|1886|p=309n}}&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;deutyrans&amp;quot; appears to be a typographical error.}}&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;perkins-woolsey&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;weber&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Zoological identifications==&lt;br /&gt;
Many scholars have identified various large beasts in the animal kingdom as to its identity. [[E. A. Wallis Budge|Budge]] suggested it may be a [[crocodilian]] native to the [[Ganges]], and hinted the Syriac name might be a corruption of the [[Makara (Hindu mythology)|makara]], a composite creature in Hindu mythology.{{sfnp|Budge|1889|pp=98}} It may also be based on [[Ctesias]]&amp;#039;s description of the giant fanged [[Indus worm]].{{sfnp|Stoneman|2012|p=xxiii}} The makara theory and Ctesia&amp;#039;s influence is also supported by Gunderson.{{sfnp|Gunderson|1980|pp=103ff}}&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;pritchard&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; Others proposed a [[rhinoceros]], though conceded it may just be an [[legendary creature|imaginary creature]].&amp;lt;ref name=rookmaaker&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pdf_files/132/1327191137.pdf |title=Source Book of the Rhinoceros |publisher=Rhino Resource Center |author=Dr Kees Rookmaaker |access-date=2015-09-13}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Reconstructed Sanskrit name==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Christian Lassen]] in the 19th century reconstructed the original name of this beast to be *&amp;#039;&amp;#039;dantešvara&amp;#039;&amp;#039; &amp;quot;lord of teeth&amp;quot;, from &amp;#039;&amp;#039;danta&amp;#039;&amp;#039; &amp;quot;tooth&amp;quot; and &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Ishvara|īšvara]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; &amp;quot;the Lord&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Lassen (1858), p. 375&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; This unattested form was rejected by Roger Goossens,{{sfnp|Goossens|1929}} who proposed instead &amp;#039;&amp;#039;dvijarāja&amp;#039;&amp;#039; which carries the dual meaning of &amp;quot;king of reptiles&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;king of teeth&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{citation|last=Seldeslachts |first=Erik |title=Translated Loans and Loan Translations as Evidence of Graeco-Indian Bilingualism in Antiquity |journal=L&amp;#039;Antiquité classique: Revue semestrielle |volume=67 |year=1998 |page=286 |url= http://www.persee.fr/doc/antiq_0770-2817_1998_num_67_1_1320}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{citation|last=Jalabert |first=Louis |title=Bulletin du Byzantinisme |journal=Recherches de Science Religieuse |volume=20 |year=1930 |pages= 468–469 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ncQnAQAAIAAJ}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Explanatory notes==&lt;br /&gt;
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{{Refend}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Greek legendary creatures]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Mythological bovines]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Mythological caprids]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Mythological deer]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Mythological felines]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Horses in mythology]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Mythological hybrids]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Ajay Kumar</name></author>
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