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Plant name	kāśa
Language	Sanskrit
Latin name	Saccharum spontaneum L. - please click to view full record
Latin name (synonyms)	Saccharum chinense Nees
Sanskrit name	kāśa
Hindi name	kās, kuś
Bengali name	kāś
Tamil name	pēkkarimpu
Malayalam name	kuśa, ñāṅṅaṇa
English name	Wild sugarcane, Thatch grass
Search occurrence	kāśa, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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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