Dantapatala, Dantapāṭala, Danta-patala: 1 definition
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Ayurveda (science of life)
Source: Research Gate: On Fish in Manasollasa (c. 1131 AD)Dantapāṭala (दन्तपाटल) refers to a type of fish identified with Odonus niger Rup, as mentioned in the 12th-century Mānasollāsa or Abhilaṣitārthachintāmaṇi, an ancient Sanskrit text describing thirty-five kinds of marine and fresh water fishes.—In Sanskrit, danta means teeth and patala means red. Thus it should be a fish with red teeth. Someshvardeva describes this fish as an inland, scaleless, medium-sized one. Hora (1951) has identified this fish to be Eutropiichthys vacha Ham. We find it difficult to accept Hora’s identification because E. vacha is found mostly in northern India and does not have red teeth. We suggest that dantapatala is the trigger fish (Balistidae) Odonus niger Ruppel, which has red teeth and is scaleless and medium-sized. It is a marine fish, but often found in inshore waters. It is present in Indo-Pacific region (Wheeler, 1985). Though Indian workers have not described this fish, we would like to think that this fish could have been present in northern Arabian Sea through to the Red Sea during the times of Someshvardeva.
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