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Plant name	jīvantī
Language	Sanskrit
Latin name	Holostemma ada-kodien Schult. - please click to view full record
Latin name (synonyms)	Holostemma rheedei Wall.
Sanskrit name	jīvantī
Hindi name	chirvel, charivel
Tamil name	pālaikkīrai
Malayalam name	aṭapatiyan, aṭapotiyan, aṭakotiyan
Search occurrence	jīvantī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
Encyclopedias & 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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