cat DN.ii.83; MN.i.128, MN.i.334; SN.ii.270; AN.iii.122 (viḷāra); AN.v.202, AN.v.289; Thag.1138; Ja.i.461 (as representing deceit), Ja.i.480; Ja.v.406, Ja.v.416, Ja.v.418; Mil.118; Dhp-a.ii.152; Pp-a 225. On biḷāra in similes cp J.P.T.S. 1907, 116.

• -nissakkana (-matta) (large enough) for a cat to creep through AN.v.195.
• -bhastā (a bag of) catskin MN.i.128 (explained by Bdhgh as “biḷāra-camma-pasibbako”); Thag.1138. At both passages in similes.

etym. uncertain, prob. a loan-word; cp. late Sk. biḍāla & see also P. biḷāla. The Prk. forms are birāla & virāla, f. birālī