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Flacourtia indica Merr. details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

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Latin name	Flacourtia indica Merr.
Family	Flacourtiaceae
Identified with (Lat)	Flacourtia ramontchi L'Hér.
Identified with (Skt)	aghorī
Identified with (Hin)	kāñcū, bilānagrā
Identified with (Tam)	cottaikkalā, mālukkārai
Identified with (Mal)	aghōrī, muḷḷuḷḷakaṭṭa
Identified with (Eng)	Governor's plum, Madagascar plum
Botanical info	A small deciduous thorny shrub, leaves simple, elliptic, flowers greenish yellow, in short tomentose racemes, fruits globose, dark purple drupes with juicy pulp and hard endocarp, growing all over India in scrub forests and rocky hills
Search occurrence	aghorī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
See plant's image	Flacourtia indica Merr. in Google image search
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 7) aghora, mfn. not terrific, m. a euphemistic title of Śiva; a worshipper of Śiva and Durgā; (ā), f. the fourteenth day of the dark half of Bhādra, which is sacred to Śiva. Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 1651) cottaikkalā: 1. Bushy roundish-leaved sweet thorn, m.sh. Flacourtia sepiaria; 2. Ceylon plum, s.tr. Flacourtia ramontchisapida; 3. Lovilovi of Ceylon, s.tr., Flacourtia inermis

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