Latin name | Cassia auriculata L. | Family | Leguminosae | Identified with (Skt) | āvartakī | Identified with (Hin) | ṭārvār, ṭārvāl | Identified with (Tam) | āvārai, āvirai | Identified with (Mal) | āvīram, āvara | Identified with (Eng) | Avaram, Tanner's cassia | Botanical info | A shrub with reddish brown branches, growing throughout central and south India in dry stony hills and black cotton soil, yellow flowers, fruits pods, flat, thin, papery, pale brown, depressed between the seeds, seeds 10 - 20 per pod | Search occurrence | āvartakī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | See plant's image | Cassia auriculata L. in Google image search | Encyclopedias & Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 156) āvartaka, m. a kind of venomous insect, Suśr.; N. of a form of cloud personified, Kum., Ragh.; a depression above the frontal ridge or over the eyebrows; whirlpool; revolution; excitement of the mind from the influence of the senses; a curl of hair; (ī), f. N. of a creeping plant, L. Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 251) āvārai: 1. Tanner's senna, l. sh., Cassia auriculata ; 2. Tinnevelly senna
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