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Latin name	Operculina turpethum (L.) Silva Manso
Family	Convolvulaceae
Identified with (Lat)	Merremia turpethum Rendle
Identified with (Skt)	trivṛt
Identified with (Hin)	niśoth, tarbut
Identified with (Tam)	civāṭai, kumpam
Identified with (Mal)	tṛikōlpakkonna, tṛipuṭa, śivata
Identified with (Eng)	Indian jalap, Turpeth
Botanical info	A large perennial twiner with milky juice, twisted, winged, pubescent, leaves simple, large, variable in shape, flowers white, fruits globose capsules, enclosed in enlarged brittle imbricate sepals, growing throughout India up to 900 m
Search occurrence	trivṛt, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 460) trivṛt, mfn. threefold, triple, triform, consisting of 3 parts or folds &c., RV. &c.; connected with the Tri-vṛit Stoma, ŚBr. xiii, KātyŚr., ŚāṅkhŚr.; (n. pl. -vRnti) ĀśvŚr.; m. (with or without stoma) a threefold Stoma (in which first the three 1st verses of each Tṛica of, RV. ix, II are sung together, then the 2nd verses, and lastly the 3rd), VS. &c.; m. a triple cord, SāṅkhGṛ., Mn. iii, 43; an amulet of 3 strings, AV. v, 28; N. of a Vyāsa (see -vRSa); f. = -tā, Suśr. (generally written tR-v-); trivRc-chiras, mfn. Telinga-headed, MBh. xii, 1632; xiii, 7379; trivRt-karaNa n. making threefold Vedāntas. 116 (ChUp. vi, 3, 2, f.); trivṛt-tā, f. triplicity, ŚBr. vi; -parNī, f. Hingcha repens, L.; trivṛt-prAya, mfn. similar to the Telinga, xii, 3, 1, 5; -stoma, mfn. connected with the Telinga Stoma, Hariv. 7435. [460,3] Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 1444) civatai: Indian jalap, l. cl., Ipomaea turpethum Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 1000) kumpam: 01 1. Earthen pot, pitcher, jar; 2. Frontal globe of an elephant's forhead; 3. Aquarius, a constellation of hte zodiac; 5. The 11th indian month; 5. Forehead; 6. Upper part of the back between the shouldres 02 1. Heap; 2. A thousand million 03 1. Indian jalap, l. cl., Ipomaca turpethum

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