Botanical info | A small tree with spinescent branches, growing in arid rocky tracks of Rajputana, Bellari, Mysore, Sindh and Baluchistan, alternate leaves, obovate, flowers small, brownish red, polygamous in fascicles, fruits ovoid drupes, red |
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 356) guggula, m. (= -lu) bdellium, Hariv. 6283, VarBṛS. lvii, 3 and 5 (v.l. -lu); lxxvii, 9 (15). Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 356) guggulu, n. (= gūlg-) bdellium or the exudation of Amyris Agallochum (a fragrant gum resin, used as a perfume and medicament), AV. (called saindhava or samudriya, 'obtained near rivers or the sea', xix, 38, 2), Kauś. ĀśvŚr. xi, 6, 3; m. id., Yājñ. i, 278, MBh. xiii, Suśr., Bhpr.; = -dru, L.; (ūs), f. (Pāṇ. 4-1, 71 Pat.) N. of an Apsaras, AV. iv, 37, 3 (cf. kaNa-, gauggulava and gaulg-.) Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 803) mahiṣākṣa or mahiṣākṣaka, m. a kind of bdellium, L.
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