| Plant name | pārijāta | | Language | Sanskrit | | Latin name | Erythrina variegata L. - please click to view full record | | Latin name (synonyms) | Erythrina indica Lam. | | Sanskrit name | pārijāta, pāribhadra | | Prakrit name | pārijāya, pāriyāya, pāriya | | Hindi name | pārijāt, dādāp, pharhad, paṃkārā | | Bengali name | pārijāt, mandār, mādār | | Tamil name | muḷḷumuṟukku, kalyāṇamuṟukku, kiñcukam, civappumoccai | | Malayalam name | muḷmurukku, murukku | | English name | Indian coral tree | | Search occurrence | pārijāta, pāribhadra, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | Encyclopedias &
Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 620)
pārijāta, m. the coral tree, Erythrina indica (losing its leaves in June and then covered with large crimson flowers) MBh. Kāv. Suśr. &c.; the wood of this tree R.; N. of one of the 5 trees of paradise produced at the churning of the ocean and taken possession of by Indra from whom it was afterwards taken by Kṛishṇa) MBh. Kāv. &c. (cf. IW. 519); fragrance Var.; N. of sev. wks. (esp. ifc.; cf. dāna-); of a Nāga MBh.; of a Rishi ib.; of an author of Mantras (with Śiktas). Cat.; -ka m. the coral tree or its wood, Śutr. Pur.; N. of a Rishi MBh.; of other men Hcar. (-ratnākara m. N. of wk.); m. or n. N. of a drama (= -ta-karaṇa) 621,1; -maya mf(ī)n. made of flowers of the celestial Pāṇ. Kathās.; -ratnākara m. N. of wk. (prob. = -taka-ratn-); -vat mfn. possessing the celestial Pāri Hariv.; -vṛtta-kkaṇḍa n. -vyākaraṇa n. N. of wks.; -sarasvatī-mantra m. pl. N. of Partic. magical formulas Cat.; -haraṇa n. robbing the Pārijāta tree N. of chs. of Hariv. and VP., also of a comedy by Gopāla dasa; (ṇa-campū) f. N. of a poem); -tācala-māhātmya n. N. of wk.
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