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 Latin nameHolostemma ada-kodien Schult.
 FamilyAsclepiadaceae
 Identified with (Lat)Holostemma rheedei Wall.
 Identified with (Skt)jīvantī
 Identified with (Hin)chirvel, charivel
 Identified with (Tam)pālaikkīrai
 Identified with (Mal)aṭapatiyan, aṭapotiyan, aṭakotiyan
 Botanical infoA laticiferous twining shrub with large conspicious flowers, leaves cordate, flowers purple, fruits thick follicles, 9 cm long, growing all over India
 Search occurrencejīvantī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 See plant's imageHolostemma ada-kodien Schult. in Google image search
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 Dictionaries

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 423)
jīvanta, mfn. long-lived, L.; m. life, L.; a drug Uṇ., Sch.; = -va-śAka, AV.xix, 39, 3; N. of a man, Pāṇ. 4-1, 103; g. karNādi; (ī), f. N. of an asterism MānGṛ. i, 14; of a medicinal and edible plant, AV. viii, 2, 6 and 7, 6, MBh. ii, 98, Suśr.; Cocculus cordifolius, L.; Prosopis spicigera or Mimosa Suma, L.; = -va-priyā, L.; a parasitical plant, L.; = DoDī, L.

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 423)
jīvanti, m. N. of a man and (pl.) his descendants Pravar. i, 1; also in comp. for -tī


 
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