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 Latin namePanicum sumatrense Roth
 FamilyPoaceae
 Identified with (Lat)Panicum miliare Lam.
 Identified with (Skt)śyāmāka, śyāmaka
 Identified with (Hin)sāvan, kumku, kuṭkī
 Identified with (Tam)cāmai
 Identified with (Mal)cāma
 Identified with (Eng)Little millet
 Botanical infoAn annual plant, 30 - 90 cm high, cultivated all over India up to 2100 m, leaves linear, tapering from a broad base, up to 60 cm long, glabrous or finely hairy, panicles compound, contracted, nodding, spikelets glabrous, fruits caryopsis
 Search occurrenceśyāmāka, śyāmaka, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 See plant's imagePanicum sumatrense Roth in Google image search
 Encyclopedias &
 Dictionaries

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1095)
śyāmāka, m. a kind of cultivated millet (Panicum Frumentaceum; pl. grains of it), VS. &c. &c.; N. of a man, Divyāv.; pl. N. of a people, VarBṛS.; (-mAka), mf(ī)n. made of Panicum Frumentaceum, TS. ŚrS., MBh.; m. a patr. g. vidādi; gopa-vanādi (pl.)

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1094)
śyāmaka, mfn. dark-coloured, dark, VarBṛS.; m. Panicum Frumentaceum (a kind of cultivated millet), L.; a gramineous plant MW.; N. of a man g. bidādi; of a brother of Vasu-deva, BhP.; a patr. g. bidādi (pl. g. gopa-vanādi); pl. N. of a people, MārkP.; (ikā), f. blackness, Kum., Kād., Hcar.; impurity, Ragh., Kād., Hcar.; a white-spotted blackish deer, L.; n. a kind of grass, L.

Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 1378)
cāmai: 1. Poor-man's millet, sown in Āvaṇi and maturing in six weeks to four months, Panicum crusgalli; 2. Little millet, Panicum miliare; 3. Common millet, Panicum miliaceum; 4. A stout-stemmed herb; 5. A plant


 
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