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Elettaria cardamomum Maton details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

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Latin name	Elettaria cardamomum Maton
Family	Zingiberaceae
Identified with (Skt)	elā, truṭī
Identified with (Hin)	elācī
Identified with (Tam)	ēlam
Identified with (Mal)	ēlam, ciṟṟēlam
Identified with (Eng)	Cardamom
Botanical info	A tall herbaceous perennial plant growing throughout India, leaves subsessile, elliptic with sheathing base, flowers in panicles, lip of the corolla white, straked violet, fruits trilocular, subglobose capsules, seeds 15 - 20 per pod
Search occurrence	elā, truṭī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 232) elā 1, f. any species of Cardamom, Suśr., Kathās.; N. of a metre (consisting of four lines of fifteen syllables each); N. of a river, Hariv.; (v.l. arlā.) Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 232) elā 2, f. sport, pastime, merriness g. kaNDv-Adi, Pāṇ. 3-1, 27. Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 462) truṭi, f. (Siddh.stry. 26) an atom (= 7 Reṇus, Lalit. xii, 176); a very minute space of time, MBh. i, 1292, Hariv. 9529, VarBṛS. ii, 0/1, Sūryas., BhP. iii, 11, 6; x; small cardamoms, Suśr. vi; doubt, L.; cutting, breaking, W.; loss, destruction, W.; breaking a promise, W.; N. of one of the mothers attending on Skanda, MBh. ix, 2635; see troTi. truṭī, f. = -Ti, L., Sch. Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 565) ēlam: 01 1. Cardamom plant, l. sh., Elettaria cardamomum; 2. Cardamom; 3. Unguent for perfuming the hair of women 02 1. Spikenard; 2. Mistletoe berry thorn; 3. Satin-wood 03 Auction

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