• Pandanus Homepage • Database of Plants • Publications • Sanskrit E-texts • Seminar of Indian Studies •

guggulu details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

Back to the list of plant names

Plant name	guggulu
Language	Sanskrit
Latin name	Commiphora mukul Engl. - please click to view full record
Sanskrit name	guggulu, guggula, mahiṣākṣa
Hindi name	gugal, guggul
Tamil name	kukkulu, mahiṣākṣi
Malayalam name	gulgulu, mahiṣākṣagulgulu
English name	Indian bdellium tree
Search occurrence	guggulu, guggula, mahiṣākṣa, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	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-.)

(c) 1998-2009 Seminar of Indian Studies, Institute of South and Central Asia, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Development of this database of Indian plant names was made possible by the generous funding of the Grant Agency of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.