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 Plant namekakubha
 LanguageSanskrit
 Latin nameTerminalia arjuna (Roxb. ex DC) Wight & Arn. - please click to view full record
 Latin name (synonyms)Terminalia ovalifolia Rottl. ex C.B.Clarke, Terminalia berryi Wight & Arn., Pentaptera angustifolia Roxb., Pentaptera arjuna Roxb., Pentaptera glabra Roxb.
 Sanskrit namearjuna, kakubha
 Prakrit namekakubha
 Hindi namearjun, kāhū, kahuā
 Bengali namearjun
 Tamil nameāṟṟumarutu, nīrmarutu, veḷḷaimarutu, marutu
 Malayalam namenīrmarutu, marutu, veṇmarutu, āṟṟumarutu, puḻamatti
 English nameArjun, Arjuna myrobalan
 Search occurrencearjuna, kakubha, kakubha, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 241)
mfn. lofty, excelling, distinguished VS. TS.; m. a kind of evil spirit AV. viii, 6, 10; a kind of bird Svapnac.; the tree Terminalia arjuna MBh. Suśr. &c.; a part of the Indian lute called the belly (a wooden vessel covered with leather placed under its neck to render the sound deeper, or a crooked piece of wood at the end of the lute), L.; (in mus.) a particular Rāga or mode; a kind of disease, L.; N. of a man g. tika-kitav di Pāṇ. 2-4, 68; of a mountain BhP.; (ā) f. space, region, L.; (in mus.) a particular Rāgiṇī; (am) n. the flower of Terminalia arjuna Kāvy d. 241,3


 
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