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 Latin nameCassia tora L.
 FamilyCaesalpiniaceae
 Identified with (Skt)prapunnāṭa, cakramarda, cakragaja
 Identified with (Hin)cakuṇḍā, cakvaṭ
 Identified with (Tam)takarai
 Identified with (Mal)takara
 Identified with (Eng)Foetid cassia
 Botanical infoA herbaceous foetid annual weed, almost an undershrub, up to 90 cm high, growing throughout India up to 1800 m, leaves pinnately compound, yellow flowers, fruits pods 15 - 23 cm long, seeds 25 - 30 per pod
 Search occurrenceprapunnāṭa, cakramarda, cakragaja, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 See plant's imageCassia tora L. in Google image search
 Encyclopedias &
 Dictionaries

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 380)
cakragaja, m. Cassia Tora, L.

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 381)
cakramarda, m. = -gaja, Suśr. iv, 9, 11.

Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 1706)
takarai: 1. Fetid cassia, s. sh., Cassia tora; 2. West Indian bead tree


 
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