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 |
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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