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 Latin namePicrorhiza scrophulariiflora Pennel
 FamilyScrophulariaceae
 Identified with (Lat)Picrorhiza kurroa Royle ex Benth.
 Identified with (Skt)kaṭurohiṇī, kaṭvī, kaṭukā
 Identified with (Hin)kaṭukā, kuru, kuṭki
 Identified with (Tam)kaṭukurōhiṇī
 Identified with (Mal)kaṭukurōhiṇi, kaṭurōhiṇi
 Identified with (Eng)Picrorhiza
 Botanical infoA 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
 Search occurrencekaṭurohiṇī, kaṭvī, kaṭukā, kaṭukā, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 See plant's imagePicrorhiza scrophulariiflora Pennel in Google image search
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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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