| Plant name | śrīphala | | Language | Sanskrit | | Latin name | Aegle marmelos (L.), Corr. - please click to view full record | | Latin name (synonyms) | Feronia pellucida Roth, Crateva marmelos L., Belou marmelos W.F.Wight, Bilacus marmelos Kuntze | | Sanskrit name | bilva, vilva, śivadruma, śrīphala | | Prakrit name | billa | | Hindi name | bel, sirphal | | Bengali name | bel, śrīphal | | Tamil name | vilvam, kūviḷam | | Malayalam name | kūvvaḷam, kūḷakam | | English name | Wood apple, Stone apple, Golden apple, Bengal quince, Indian quince | | Search occurrence | bilva, vilva, śivadruma, śrīphala, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | Encyclopedias &
Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1099)
śrīphala, m. the Bilva tree, Aegle Marmelos L.; (ā) f. the Indigo plant L.; (ī) f. id. L.; myrobalan L.; (am) n. "sacred fruit", the Bilva fruit Mn. Yājñ. Hariv.; a cocoanut GāruḍaP.; the fruit i.e. result of splendour &c. Cat.; -kṛcchra m. a kind of self-mortification (regarded as specially efficacious, eating no food except the Bilva fruit for a whole month) Vishṇ.; -vardhinī f. N. of wk.
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