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biDAla is indeed in most instances I have seen used for he house cat. However it has some variants:
birAla, virAla, bilAla, biLala vilAla. It is the cognate of the prAkR^ita billa and Hindi billi/billa and bilAv.

There are Dravidian words that might apparently be related to it:
Tam.: veluku or veruku = cat
Kan.: berku=cat
Bharatvarsh anything in Tel. ?
I am not sure if this relationship is real but we do not have any satisfactory explanation of the Indo-Aryan versions.
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The Telugu word for cat is "pilli".