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Plant name	damana
Language	Sanskrit
Latin name	Artemisia vulgaris L. - please click to view full record
Latin name (synonyms)	Artemisia nilagirica (Clark) Pamp.
Sanskrit name	damanaka, damana
Hindi name	nāgdonā, davanā, daunā
Bengali name	nāgadānā
Tamil name	mācipattiri, makkippū, tirunāmacceṭi
Malayalam name	māśipatṛi, makkippūvu
English name	Indian wormwood, Fleabane, Mugwort
Search occurrence	damanaka, damana, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 469) damana, mf(ī)n. ifc. taming, subduing, overpowering MBh. viii Bhartṛ.; self-controlled, passiv, 26, 2; (g. nandy-ādi) Artemisia indica Mantram. xxiii; N. of a Samādhi Kāraṇḍ. xvii, 18; of Yāmāyana (author of RV. x, 16) Rānukr.; of a son of Vasu-deva by Rohiṇī Hariv. 1951; of a Brahmarshi Nal.i, 6 VāyuP. i, 23, 115; of a son of Bharadvāja KāśīKh. lxxiv; of an old king MBh. i, 224; of a Vidarbha king Nal. i, 9; n. taming, subduing, punishing MBh. R. Śak. BhP. BrahmavP.; self-restraint W.; (ī) f. Solanum Jacquini L.; N. of a Śakti Hcat. i, 8, 405.

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