Botanical info | A small perennial herb with woody elongate creeping root stock, growing in the Himalayas at 2700 - 4500 m, leaves spathulate, serrate, flowers white or bluish in dense terminal spicate racemes, fruit ovoid capsules, dried rhizome is cylindrical, deep greyish brown |
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 244) kaṭuka, mf(ā and ī)n. sharp, pungent, bitter; fierce, impetuous, hot, bad, RV. x, 85, 34, MBh., Kathās. &c.; m. N. of several plants, L.; N. of a man; (ā, ī), f. N. of several plants, L.; (am) n. pungency, acerbity, MBh. ii; (ifc. in a bad sense e.g. dadhi-kaTuka, m. bad coagulated milk, Pāṇ. 6-2, 126); N. of a plant, L.; an aggregate of three pungent substances (see -traya), L.
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