| Latin name | Elephantopus scaber L. | | Family | Asteraceae | | Identified with (Skt) | hastipādī, gojihvā | | Identified with (Hin) | gobhī | | Identified with (Tam) | yāṉaiccuvaṭi | | Identified with (Mal) | ānayaṭiyan, ānaccuvaṭi | | Identified with (Eng) | Prickly leaved elephant's foot | | Botanical info | A rigid herb usually perennial, growing all over India, leaves obovate-oblong, radical forming a spreading rosette on the ground, hairy, flowers purple in heads, fruits achenes, papus of 4-6 bristles dilated at the base | | Search occurrence | hastipādī, gojihvā, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | | See plant's image | Elephantopus scaber L. in Google image search | Encyclopedias &
Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 364)
gojihvā, f. N. of a plant (Phlomis or Premna esculenta, L.; Elephantopus scaber, L.; Coix barbata or a kind of Hieracium, L.), Car. i, 27, 86, Suśr. i, 46, 4, 51.
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