The man-eating tigress that terrorized the jungles of central India for two years has been shot and killed, but not without putting up a fight.

A forest ranger on Friday fired a tranquilizing dart into the side of the six-year-old big cat, believed to have slain 13 villagers, but she charged at his open-air patrol vehicle and a hunter shot her with a single, fatal bullet to the belly.

The hunter fired out of “self defense,” according to a report.

The female tiger, the subject of a massive hunt involving sharpshooters, cameras and a heat-seeking drone, was lured out with the help of Obsession for Men, a Calvin Klein cologne with a pheromone from the nocturnal civet that attracts big cats, the New York Times reported.

The cologne, tested with success on jaguars at the Bronx Zoo, got spritzed in areas of the western state of Maharashtra where the killer tigress was suspected of hiding.

Officials hoped to take her alive because she was known to travel with two 10-month-old cubs.

Hours later, the tigress — dubbed T1 by forest rangers and Avni by animal advocates — was seen walking down a street near the Borati village, and a patrol team was dispatched.

Though it was dark, the team recognized her from her stripes, which, like fingerprints, are unique to each tiger. Her cubs weren’t with her.

Villagers on Saturday spotted one of the cubs climbing a hill near where T1 died, the Times reported.

The cat claimed her first victim in 2016.

In August, the tigress and her cubs were blamed for the deaths of three people in Yavatmal, about 20 miles west of the Borati village.

Authorities used DNA tests taken from saliva on the corpses to link the killings to the tigress.

With Wires