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 Plant namepunnāga
 LanguageSanskrit
 Latin nameCalophyllum inophyllum L. - please click to view full record
 Sanskrit namepunnāga
 Hindi namesultān campā
 Tamil namepuṉṉai, puṉṉakam
 Malayalam namepunna
 English nameAlexandrian laurel
 Search occurrencepunnāga, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 631)
puṃnāga, m. 'elephant among men', any distinguished man, L.; a white elephant, L.; N. of a plant (Rottleria Tinctoria or Calophyllum Inophyllum), L.; a white lotus, L.; a nutmeg, L.


 
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