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Saccharum spontaneum L. details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

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Latin name	Saccharum spontaneum L.
Family	Poaceae
Identified with (Lat)	Saccharum chinense Nees
Identified with (Skt)	kāśa
Identified with (Hin)	kās, kuś
Identified with (Ben)	kāś
Identified with (Tam)	pēkkarimpu
Identified with (Mal)	kuśa, ñāṅṅaṇa
Identified with (Eng)	Wild sugarcane, Thatch grass
Botanical info	A tall perennial grass up to 6m high, conspicuous white inflorescence, grows in marshlands all over India up to 1800m elevation.
Search occurrence	kāśa, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
See plant's image	Saccharum spontaneum L. in Google image search
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 280) kāśa, m. "the becoming visible, appearance", only in sa-k- q.v.; N. of a man g. aśvādi; of a prince (the son of Suhotra and father of Kāśi-rāja) Hariv. VP.; a species of grass (Saccharum spontaneum, used for mats, roofs, &c.; also personified, together with the Kuśa grass, as one of Yama's attendants) Kauś. R. Kum. &c.; (ā, ī) f. id. L. (am) n. id. L.

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