<Li> According to John Hampden Porter (1894, page 176), Lockington said that the jaguar reigned' supreme' as the "terror of the forest," and that this applied to the lion and tiger in the' desert' and' jungle', respectively . </Li> <Li> In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Narada told Srinjaya that tigers were fiercer and more ruthless than lions . </Li> <Li> The lion and tiger rival each other in Iranian literature . For example, Humphreys and Kahrom, in their 1999 book Lion and Gazelle: The Mammals and Birds of Iran, treated them as the "two greatest and most beautiful" of Iranian carnivores, albeit being extinct there . As with the lion, the tiger's Persian name was used for people and places . </Li> <P> In Paalai, a Tamil film, there is dialogue about the characteristics of the tiger and lion . It concludes that the tiger is superior . In the film, the tiger is the symbol and flag of the native Tamil tribal people and the lion is the symbol and flag of non-Tamil Singhal (literally meaning' Leonine') people . </P>

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