| Latin name | Cannabis sativa L. | | Family | Cannabaceae | | Identified with (Skt) | bhaṅgā | | Identified with (Hin) | bhaṅg, gañjā | | Identified with (Tam) | kañcā, pāmkī | | Identified with (Mal) | kañcāvu, śivamūli | | Identified with (Eng) | Indian hemp, Soft hemp | | Botanical info | A large aromatic resinous annual herb, 1,2 - 4,8 m high, growing throughout India, female plant taller than male plant, leaves palmately divided, male flowers in short drooping panicles, female flowers in short axillary crowded spikes, fruit achenes, black seeds | | Search occurrence | bhaṅgā, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | | See plant's image | Cannabis sativa L. in Google image search | Encyclopedias &
Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 744)
bhaṅgā, f. hemp (Cannabis Sativa); an intoxicating beverage (or narcotic drug commonly called 'Bhang') prepared from the hemp plant, ŚārṅgS.; Convolvulus Turpethum, L.
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