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Asparagus racemosus Willd. details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

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Latin name	Asparagus racemosus Willd.
Family	Asparagaceae
Identified with (Skt)	śatāvarī, ābhīru
Identified with (Hin)	satāvar, śatamūli
Identified with (Tam)	kilāvari, catāvali
Identified with (Mal)	śatāvari, śatāvali
Identified with (Eng)	Wild asparagus
Botanical info	An armed, climbing undershrub with woody terete stems and recuved spines, growing throughout India up to 1400 m, white fragrant flowers, globular fruits - pulpy berries, purplish black, tuberous succulent roots
Search occurrence	śatāvarī, ābhīru, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
See plant's image	Asparagus racemosus Willd. in Google image search
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 74) abhīru, m. (acc. -rvam, 4; nom. pl. -ravas) fn. fearless, RV.; Mn. vii, 190; not terrific (nom. pl., f. -ravas), RV. viii, 46, 7; (us), m. N. of a prince, MBh. i, 2689; N. of Bhairava or Śiva; (us) [L.] or (U) [Suśr.], f. the plant Asparagus Racemosus. Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1050) śatāvara, m. a fine of a hundred (Paṇas &c.), W.; (ī), f. Asparagus Racemosus, Suśr., ŚārṅgS., VarBṛS., Bhpr.; a kind of plant, zedoary (= śaTī) MW.; N. of the wife of Indra, L. Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 939) kiḷavari: A common climber with many thick fieshy roots

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