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Plant name	sāla
Language	Sanskrit
Latin name	Shorea robusta Gaertn.f. - please click to view full record
Sanskrit name	sāla, aśvakarṇa
Prakrit name	sāla
Hindi name	sāl, ṣāl
Bengali name	śāl, sāl
Tamil name	ṣālam, āccā, kuṅkiliyam
Malayalam name	sālavṛkṣam, muḷappūmarutu
English name	Sal tree
Search occurrence	sāla, aśvakarṇa, aśvakarṇa, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1210) m. (often incorrectly written for 1. śāla) the Śāl tree; a wall, fence &c.; for these and other meanings and compounds such as salagrāma &c., see 1. śāla; (ā) f. see next. Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1067) mfn. (fr. śṛ for śri) being in a house &c. ŚBr. (am ind. at home ib.); m. (also written sāla), an enclosure, court, fence, rampart, wall Inscr. Kāv.; the Śāl tree, Vatica robusta (a valuable timber tree) MBh. Kāv. &c.; Artocarpus locucha, L.; any tree, L.; a kind of fish, Ophiocephalus wrahl Vās.; N. of a son of Vṛika BhP.; of king Śāli-vāhana, L.; of a river W.; (ā) f. see below; n. (ifc.) = śālā

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