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 Plant namesugandhimūla
 LanguageSanskrit
 Latin nameVetiveria zizanioides (L.) Nash. - please click to view full record
 Latin name (synonyms)Andropogon muricatus Retz., Phalaris zizanioides L., Andropogon zizanioides Urb., Anatherum zizanioides Hitchc. & Chase
 Sanskrit nameuśīra, sevya, sugandhimūla
 Prakrit nameusīra, osīra
 Hindi namekhas
 Bengali namebeṇā, gandhabeṇā, gandhamūl, khaskhas, khaśkhaś
 Tamil nameveṭṭivēr, viraṇam
 Malayalam namerāmaccam
 English nameKhus grass, Cuscus grass, Vetiver
 Search occurrenceuśīra, sevya, sugandhimūla, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1222)
sugandhimūla, n. a radish L.; the root of Uśīra MW.; -mūlā f. Curcuma Zedoaria L.; = rāsnā ib.


 
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