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Plant name	śyāmaka
Language	Sanskrit
Latin name	Panicum sumatrense Roth - please click to view full record
Latin name (synonyms)	Panicum miliare Lam.
Sanskrit name	śyāmāka, śyāmaka
Hindi name	sāvan, kumku, kuṭkī
Tamil name	cāmai
Malayalam name	cāma
English name	Little millet
Search occurrence	śyāmāka, śyāmaka, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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.

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